Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 16
Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cross borders without passport checks.
Who acts: Schengen Area, people · What happens: let, cross · To what, where: people, most, borders
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 (Schengen Area, people), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 2 most | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 lets | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Union | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Union | det |
| 5 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Union | compound |
| 6 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lets | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Area | det |
| 9 | Schengen | Schengen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Area | compound |
| 10 | Area | Area | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lets | nsubj |
| 11 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lets | obj |
| 13 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lets | xcomp |
| 14 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cross | obj |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 checks | case |
| 16 | passport | passport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 checks | compound |
| 17 | checks | check | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cross | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lets | 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 | let | present | the Schengen Area | people | most of the European Union | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cross | infinitive | people not said here | borders | without passport checks | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient |
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:16.
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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