Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 8

The eastern bulge of Brazil lay east of the Tordesillas line, which is a main reason Brazil speaks Portuguese while most of South America speaks Spanish.

Who acts: eastern bulge, Tordesillas line, Brazil, most · What happens: lay, be, speak · To what, where: main reason, Portuguese, Spanish · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eastern bulge, Tordesillas line, Brazil, most), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulge	det
2	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bulge	amod
3	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Brazil	case
5	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bulge	nmod
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	east	east	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 line	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 line	det
10	Tordesillas	Tordesillas	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 line	compound
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 east	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 reason	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reason	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 reason	det
16	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reason	amod
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 line	acl:relcl
18	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 speaks	nsubj
19	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reason	acl
20	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 speaks	obj
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 speaks	mark
22	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 speaks	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 America	case
24	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 America	compound
25	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 most	nmod
26	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 speaks	advcl
27	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 speaks	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the eastern bulge of Brazil		east property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the Tordesillas line	a main reason		tree rules
3	speak speech: other	present	Brazil	Portuguese		tree rules
4	speak speech: other	present	most of South America	Spanish		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:8.

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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