--- title: The eastern bulge of Brazil lay east of the Tordesillas line, which… — Borders: why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: The eastern bulge of Brazil lay east of the Tordesillas line, which is a main reason Brazil speaks Portuguese while most of South America speaks Spanish. Who acts: eastern bulge, Tordesillas line, Brazil, most. 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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 (eastern bulge, Tordesillas line, Brazil, most), 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:8 # text = The eastern bulge of Brazil lay east of the Tordesillas line, which is a main reason Brazil speaks Portuguese while most of South America speaks Spanish. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bulge bulge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 lay lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 east east ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Tordesillas Tordesillas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ _ 18 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl _ _ 20 Portuguese Portuguese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 27 Spanish Spanish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **lay** | past | the eastern bulge of Brazil | | | | | east *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Tordesillas line | a main reason | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Brazil | Portuguese | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | most of South America | Spanish | | | | | 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: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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/7/) - next →: [Borders: why they are where they are, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/)