--- title: Real places were rarely so tidy: towns spoke one language and villag… — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics description: Real places were rarely so tidy: towns spoke one language and villages another, courts used a third, and borders cut right through peoples such as the Kurds. Who acts: Real places, towns, courts, borders. A sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» of the geography course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Languages and peoples on the map](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/) / 8 # Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 8 Real places were rarely so tidy: towns spoke one language and villages another, courts used a third, and borders cut right through peoples such as the Kurds. **Who acts:** Real places, towns, courts, borders · **What happens:** be, speak, use, cut · **To what, where:** one language, third · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» 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 (Real places, towns, courts, borders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:8 # text = Real places were rarely so tidy: towns spoke one language and villages another, courts used a third, and borders cut right through peoples such as the Kurds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 tidy tidy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 third third NOUN NN NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 right right ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 27 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 30 case _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Kurds Kurd PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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** | past | Real places | | | | | rarely, tidy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | towns | one language and villages | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | past | courts | a third | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient | | 4 | **cut** | past | borders | | | | | through peoples such the Kurds | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through people=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Languages and peoples on the map, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/7/) - next →: [Languages and peoples on the map, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/)