Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 6

Many borders in Africa, the Middle East and North America are straight lines drawn on maps; the USA and Canada share the 49th parallel for about 2,000 kilometres.

Who acts: Many borders, USA · What happens: be, draw, share · To what, where: straight lines, maps, 49th parallel

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 (Many borders, USA), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 borders	amod
2	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lines	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Africa	case
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 borders	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 East	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 East	det
7	Middle	Middle	PROPN	_	8 East	compound
8	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Africa	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 America	cc
10	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 America	compound
11	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 East	conj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lines	cop
13	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lines	amod
14	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lines	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 maps	case
17	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 drawn	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 share	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 USA	det
20	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 share	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Canada	cc
22	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 USA	conj
23	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lines	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 parallel	det
25	49th	49th	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 parallel	amod
26	parallel	parallel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 share	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 kilometres	case
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 2,000	advmod
29	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 kilometres	nummod
30	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 share	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lines	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Many borders in Africa and the Middle East and North America	straight lines			tree rules
2	draw	participle		straight lines not said here	maps		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on map=Destination
3	share	present	the USA and Canada	the 49th parallel		for 2,000 kilometres	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.

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:6.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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