Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 17
Some borders are marked by walls and fences, such as the heavily guarded border between North and South Korea.
Who acts: walls · What happens: mark, guard · To what, where: 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 (walls), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 borders | det |
| 2 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 marked | aux:pass |
| 4 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 walls | case |
| 6 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 marked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fences | cc |
| 8 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walls | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 border | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 border | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 border | det |
| 13 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 14 guarded | advmod |
| 14 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 border | amod |
| 15 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walls | nmod |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 Korea | case |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Korea | compound |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 South | cc |
| 19 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 North | conj |
| 20 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 border | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present · passive | walls such the guarded border between North Korea and fences | some borders | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | guard | participle | heavily property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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:17.
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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