Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 2

Some places are islands of one country inside another, like Lesotho inside South Africa, and in the town of Baarle the Belgian–Dutch border runs through streets and even through houses.

Who acts: places, Dutch border · What happens: be, run · To what, where: islands, streets

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 (places, Dutch 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 places	det
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 islands	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 islands	cop
4	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 country	nummod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 islands	nmod
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	7 country	advmod
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 inside	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Lesotho	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 Lesotho	case
12	Lesotho	Lesotho	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 islands	nmod
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	15 Africa	case
14	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Africa	compound
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lesotho	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 town	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 town	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Lesotho	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Baarle	case
22	Baarle	Baarle	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 town	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 border	det
24	Belgian	Belgian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Dutch	amod
25	–	–	PUNCT	_	24 Belgian	punct
26	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 border	amod
27	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 runs	nsubj
28	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 town	parataxis
29	through	through	ADP	_	30 streets	case
30	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 runs	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 houses	cc
32	even	even	ADV	_	34 houses	advmod
33	through	through	ADP	_	34 houses	case
34	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 runs	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 islands	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	is a	present	some places	islands				of one country; like Lesotho inside South Africa and the town of Baarle	tree rules
2	run	present	the Dutch border			streets			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory

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:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:2.

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, 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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