Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 15
Countries also have borders at sea, with territorial waters reaching 12 nautical miles (a nautical mile is a sea mile, a bit under 2 kilometres) from the coast, and fishing and mineral rights in an exclusive economic zone up to 200 nautical miles out.
Who acts: Countries, territorial waters, nautical mile · What happens: have, reach, be · To what, where: borders, sea, 12 nautical miles, coast, sea mile
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 (Countries, territorial waters, nautical mile), 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 | Countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 waters | case |
| 9 | territorial | territorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waters | amod |
| 10 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obl |
| 11 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 waters | acl |
| 12 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 miles | nummod |
| 13 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 miles | amod |
| 14 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reaching | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 mile | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mile | det |
| 17 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mile | amod |
| 18 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mile | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 mile | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mile | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mile | compound |
| 22 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 miles | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bit | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bit | det |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mile | parataxis |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 kilometres | case |
| 27 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 kilometres | nummod |
| 28 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bit | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 mile | punct |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 coast | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 coast | det |
| 32 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reaching | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rights | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rights | cc |
| 35 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rights | compound |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 mineral | cc |
| 37 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fishing | conj |
| 38 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 waters | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 zone | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 zone | det |
| 41 | exclusive | exclusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 zone | amod |
| 42 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 zone | amod |
| 43 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rights | nmod |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 zone | compound:prt |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 miles | case |
| 46 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 miles | nummod |
| 47 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 miles | amod |
| 48 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 zone | nmod |
| 49 | out | out | ADV | _ | 48 miles | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Countries | borders | sea | with territorial waters and fishing rights in a exclusive economic zone to 200 nautical miles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient | ||
| 2 | reach | gerund | territorial waters and fishing rights in a exclusive economic zone to 200 nautical miles not said here | 12 nautical miles | the coast | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mile=Theme from coast=Source | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a nautical mile | a sea mile | tree rules |
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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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): R6-punct-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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