--- title: Think of two brothers splitting a bedroom with tape on the floor: if… — Borders: why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: Think of two brothers splitting a bedroom with tape on the floor: if they tape along the bunk bed, it makes sense, but if a parent tapes straight through the middle, one of them may end up with the door and the other with the window. Who acts: you, two brothers, brothers, border. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two brothers, brothers, border), 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:2 # text = Think of two brothers splitting a bedroom with tape on the floor: if they tape along the bunk bed, it makes sense, but if a parent tapes straight through the middle, one of them may end up with the door and the other with the window. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 splitting split VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 tape tape NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tape tape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 17 along along ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 bunk bunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 24 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 tapes tape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 straight straight ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of two brothers | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **split** | gerund | two brothers *not said here* | a bedroom | | | | with tape on the floor | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bedroom=Patient with tape=Instrument | | 3 | **tape** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | brothers *= brother* | | | | | along the bunk bed | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | border | sense | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product | | 5 | **tape** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a parent | | | the middle | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **end up** | may | one of brothers | | | | | with the door | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.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): R7-rel-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: [Borders: why they are where they are, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/1/) - next →: [Borders: why they are where they are, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/)