--- title: Your cousin drives from France into Germany and sees only a sign. Wh… — Borders: why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Your cousin drives from France into Germany and sees only a sign. Why no passport check? 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Why no passport check? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** drive, see · **To what, where:** France, sign This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 31 «Borders: why they are where they are» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your cousin drives from France into Germany and sees only a sign. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:1 # text = Your cousin drives from France into Germany and sees only a sign. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | present | Your cousin | | | France | | into Germany | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from france=Trajectory | | 2 | **see** | present | Your cousin *not said here* | a sign | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | 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. *Sentence 2:* Why no passport check? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:2 # text = Why no passport check? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 3 passport passport NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Drivers never need passports anywhere ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o1:1 # text = Drivers never need passports anywhere 1 Drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 passports passport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **need** | present | Drivers | passports | | | | anywhere *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot passport=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Germany has no border police at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o2:1 # text = Germany has no border police at all 1 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Germany | no border police | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} The border was moved that morning ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o3:1 # text = The border was moved that morning 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | past · passive | | the border | | | morning | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Both are in the Schengen Area ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are:t2:o4:1 # text = Both are in the Schengen Area 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Schengen Schengen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Area Area PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Both | | | the Schengen Area | | | tree rules | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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