Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 14
Borders are not fixed forever, and the map of Europe has changed many times through wars, marriages, treaties and votes.
Who acts: map · What happens: not fix, change · To what, where: Borders, wars
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borders: why they are where they are» of the geography 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 (map), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fixed | advmod |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 fixed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 changed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 changed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 map | det |
| 9 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Europe | case |
| 11 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 map | nmod |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 changed | aux |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 fixed | conj |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 wars | case |
| 17 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 changed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 marriages | punct |
| 19 | marriages | marriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wars | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 treaties | punct |
| 21 | treaties | treaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wars | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 votes | cc |
| 23 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wars | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
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 | not fix | present · passive | Borders | forever property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | present · perfect | the map of Europe | wars and marriages and treaties and votes | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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, 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:geography:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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