--- title: Venice in Italy is built on more than a hundred small islands in a l… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: Venice in Italy is built on more than a hundred small islands in a lagoon, so it has canals instead of many of its streets, and people travel by boat, including the long black gondolas. Who acts: city, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:11 # text = Venice in Italy is built on more than a hundred small islands in a lagoon, so it has canals instead of many of its streets, and people travel by boat, including the long black gondolas. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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 ×2 1 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 10 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lagoon lagoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 23 case _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 gondolas gondola NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | Venice in Italy | | hundred small islands in a lagoon | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on island=Source | | 2 | **have** | present | city | canals | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **travel** | present | people | the long black gondolas | | | | by boat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by boat=Trajectory | | 4 | **include** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. 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