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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 (canal, canal age, Bridgewater Canal), 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:7 # text = A canal is a waterway dug by people; Britain's canal age ran from about 1760 to the 1830s, starting with the Bridgewater Canal of 1761, which carried coal to Manchester and made it much cheaper. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 waterway waterway NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:agent _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 1760 1760 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 1830s 1830 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Bridgewater Bridgewater PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 1761 1761 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 much much ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 cheaper cheap ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 xcomp _ _ 40 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a canal | a waterway | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dig** | participle | | a waterway *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run** | past | Britain's canal age | | | 1760 to the 1830s | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 1760=Trajectory | | 4 | **start** | gerund | Britain's canal age *not said here* | | | | | with the Bridgewater Canal of 1761 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with canal=Subeventuality | | 5 | **carry** | past | the Bridgewater Canal of 1761 | coal | Manchester | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme to manchester=Destination | | 6 | **make** | past | the Bridgewater Canal of 1761 *not said here* | canal | | | | cheap *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:7`. **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, R7-rel-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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