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title: In 1337, the year Europa Universalis 5 begins, the queue was perhaps… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1337, the year Europa Universalis 5 begins, the queue was perhaps only about 400 million long, fewer people than India alone has now. Who acts: year Europa, queue. A sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Population and cities, sentence 1

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In 1337, the year Europa Universalis 5 begins, the queue was perhaps only about 400 million long, fewer people than India alone has now.

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**Who acts:** year Europa, queue · **What happens:** begin, be, have · **To what, where:** 1337

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» 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 (year Europa, queue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:024-population-and-cities.lesson:1
# text = In 1337, the year Europa Universalis 5 begins, the queue was perhaps only about 400 million long, fewer people than India alone has now.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 024-population-and-cities.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Europa	europa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nummod
18	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
26	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | year Europa |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the queue |  |  | 1337 |  | 400 million *obl:unmarked*; long, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the queue *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:024-population-and-cities.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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