--- title: The Arsenal of Venice was a huge state shipyard that could build shi… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean · tree and pragmatics description: The Arsenal of Venice was a huge state shipyard that could build ships one after another, almost like a factory, and it was one of the largest workplaces in Europe before the industrial age. Who acts: Arsenal, huge state shipyard. A sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/) / 8 # Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 8 The Arsenal of Venice was a huge state shipyard that could build ships one after another, almost like a factory, and it was one of the largest workplaces in Europe before the industrial age. **Who acts:** Arsenal, huge state shipyard · **What happens:** be, build · **To what, where:** huge state shipyard, ships, one This is a sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arsenal, huge state shipyard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:8 # text = The Arsenal of Venice was a huge state shipyard that could build ships one after another, almost like a factory, and it was one of the largest workplaces in Europe before the industrial age. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Arsenal arsenal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 shipyard shipyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:appos 15 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 workplaces workplace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 before before ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 industrial industrial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the Arsenal of Venice | a huge state shipyard | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | could | a huge state shipyard | ships | | | | like a factory; one after another *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product | | 3 | **is a** | past | Arsenal | one | | | | of the largest workplaces in Europe before the industrial age | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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