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title: The Channel Tunnel is really three tunnels, two for trains and one s… — Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The Channel Tunnel is really three tunnels, two for trains and one service tunnel between them; it is about 50 km long and opened in 1994. Who acts: Channel Tunnel, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★, sentence 12

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The Channel Tunnel is really three tunnels, two for trains and one service tunnel between them; it is about 50 km long and opened in 1994.

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**Who acts:** Channel Tunnel, ice · **What happens:** be, open · **To what, where:** three tunnels, 1994

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: transport, building and energy ★★★» of the technology 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 (Channel Tunnel, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.lesson:12
# text = The Channel Tunnel is really three tunnels, two for trains and one service tunnel between them; it is about 50 km long and opened in 1994.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Channel	Channel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tunnel	tunnel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nummod
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1994	1994	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Channel Tunnel | three tunnels and one service tunnel between trains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | ice |  |  |  |  | 50 km *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | past | ice *not said here* |  |  | 1994 |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1994=Location |

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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.

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**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:043-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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