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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 (railways, canals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:13 # text = From the 1840s railways took most of the canals' trade, and today about 2,000 miles of canals and rivers in England and Wales are used mostly for holidays, walking and fishing, with a speed limit of 4 miles an hour on canals. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 4 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 9 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 ' 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 14 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 28 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=30:punct 32 walking walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:unmarked _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | railways | most of the canals's trade | | the 1840s | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent most=Theme from 1840=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **use** | present · passive | | 2,000 miles of canals in England and Wales and rivers | | | today | for holidays and walking and fishing; with a speed limit of 4 miles a hour on canals | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for holiday=Eventuality | | 3 | **trade** | | the canals | | | | | | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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