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title: The largest cities of the 1300s, such as Constantinople, Paris or Ha… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest cities of the 1300s, such as Constantinople, Paris or Hangzhou, had a few hundred thousand people at most. Who acts: largest cities. A sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Population and cities, sentence 15

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The largest cities of the 1300s, such as Constantinople, Paris or Hangzhou, had a few hundred thousand people at most.

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**Who acts:** largest cities · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** few thousand people, most

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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 (largest cities), 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:15
# text = The largest cities of the 1300s, such as Constantinople, Paris or Hangzhou, had a few hundred thousand people at most.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1300s	1300	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Hangzhou	Hangzhou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **have** | past | the largest cities of the 1300s and Constantinople and Paris or Hangzhou | a few thousand people |  | most |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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