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title: Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cro… — Borders: why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cross borders without passport checks. Who acts: Schengen Area, people. A sentence of the lesson «Borders: why they are where they are» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 16

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Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cross borders without passport checks.

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**Who acts:** Schengen Area, people · **What happens:** let, cross · **To what, where:** people, most, borders

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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 (Schengen Area, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:16
# text = Inside most of the European Union, the Schengen Area lets people cross borders without passport checks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.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): no change
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Schengen	Schengen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Area	Area	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	passport	passport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | the Schengen Area | people |  | most of the European Union |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | infinitive | people *not said here* | borders |  |  |  | without passport checks | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient |

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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.

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**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:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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