--- title: Some borders are marked by walls and fences, such as the heavily gua… — Borders: why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Some borders are marked by walls and fences, such as the heavily guarded border between North and South Korea. Who acts: walls. 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 every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/17/) [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/) / [Borders: why they are where they are](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/) / 17 # Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 17 Some borders are marked by walls and fences, such as the heavily guarded border between North and South Korea. **Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** mark, guard · **To what, where:** borders 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 (walls), 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:17 # text = Some borders are marked by walls and fences, such as the heavily guarded border between North and South Korea. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 heavily heavily ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 16 between between ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | present · passive | walls such the guarded border between North Korea and fences | some borders | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | | 2 | **guard** | participle | | | | | | heavily *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Borders: why they are where they are, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/16/) - next →: [Borders: why they are where they are, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/)