Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 18

Hadrian's Wall was a Roman frontier in northern England, and it does not follow today's border between England and Scotland, which lies to the north of it.

Who acts: Wall, border · What happens: be, not follow, lie · To what, where: Roman frontier, northern England, border, England

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 (Wall, border), 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	Hadrian	Hadrian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wall	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hadrian	case
3	Wall	Wall	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 frontier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frontier	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 frontier	det
6	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frontier	amod
7	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 England	case
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 England	amod
10	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 frontier	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 follow	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 follow	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 follow	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 follow	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 follow	advmod
16	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 frontier	conj
17	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 border	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 today	case
19	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 follow	obj
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 England	case
21	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 border	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Scotland	cc
23	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 England	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lies	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lies	nsubj
26	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 border	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 north	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 north	det
29	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lies	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 north	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 frontier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hadrian's Wall	a Roman frontier	northern England		tree rules
2	not follow	present · do-support	border	today's border	England and Scotland		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent border=Theme between england=Trajectory
3	lie	present	today's border			to the north of border	vn assuming_position-50 «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:18.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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