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title: In Europa Universalis 5, straits are places where armies can cross b… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Europa Universalis 5, straits are places where armies can cross between lands and where forts and trade are valuable, and that is true. Who acts: straits, armies, forts, that. A sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography cour
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# Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 3

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In Europa Universalis 5, straits are places where armies can cross between lands and where forts and trade are valuable, and that is true.

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**Who acts:** straits, armies, forts, that · **What happens:** be, cross · **To what, where:** places, Europa

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» 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 (straits, armies, forts, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.lesson:3
# text = In Europa Universalis 5, straits are places where armies can cross between lands and where forts and trade are valuable, and that is true.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 019-straits-the-narrow-doors.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	forts	fort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | straits | places |  | Europa |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | can | armies |  |  |  |  | between lands | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | forts and trade |  |  |  |  | valuable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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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