--- title: About 250 years ago Britain dug thousands of kilometres of canals, b… — Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mi… · tree and pragmatics description: About 250 years ago Britain dug thousands of kilometres of canals, because a single horse walking on the towpath could pull a boat carrying far more coal than it could pull in a cart on a bumpy road. Who acts: Britain, single horse, boat, horse. 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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 (Britain, single horse, boat, horse), 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:3 # text = About 250 years ago Britain dug thousands of kilometres of canals, because a single horse walking on the towpath could pull a boat carrying far more coal than it could pull in a cart on a bumpy road. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 250 250 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj 17 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 towpath towpath NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 bumpy bumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | past | Britain | thousands of kilometres of canals | | | | ago *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | a single horse *not said here* | | | the towpath | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on towpath=Trajectory | | 3 | **pull** | could | a single horse | a boat | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 4 | **carry** | gerund | a boat *not said here* | more coal | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | | 5 | **pull** | could | horse | | | a cart | | on a bumpy road | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on road=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×3. **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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