--- title: In Europa Universalis 5 borders move with every war and inheritance,… — Borders: why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: In Europa Universalis 5 borders move with every war and inheritance, and that is not far from the truth, but the game shows them as sharp lines, while real borders around 1337 were often blurry zones. Who acts: borders, that, game, real borders. 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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 (borders, that, game, real borders), 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:3 # text = In Europa Universalis 5 borders move with every war and inheritance, and that is not far from the truth, but the game shows them as sharp lines, while real borders around 1337 were often blurry zones. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 Universalis Universalis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 5 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 inheritance inheritance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 32 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 34 around around ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1337 1337 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nmod _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 often often ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 blurry blurry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | borders | | | Europa | | with every war and inheritance | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in europa=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | present | that | | | the truth | | far *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | present | the game | war | | | | as sharp lines | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | past | real borders around 1337 | blurry zones | | | | often *property* | tree rules | 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:3`. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/2/) - next →: [Borders: why they are where they are, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/)