--- title: The game's starting map hides a disaster: just ten years after 1337… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics description: The game's starting map hides a disaster: just ten years after 1337 the Black Death reached Europe and killed perhaps a third to a half of its people. Who acts: starting map, Black Death. 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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 (starting map, Black Death), 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:8 # text = The game's starting map hides a disaster: just ten years after 1337 the Black Death reached Europe and killed perhaps a third to a half of its people. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 starting starting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 disaster disaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1337 1337 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Death death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl _ _ 19 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 21 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . 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 | **hide** | present | the game's starting map | a disaster | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disaster=Patient | | 2 | **reach** | past | the Black Death | Europe | | | after 1337; year | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme | | 3 | **kill** | past | the Black Death *not said here* | a third | | | | to a half of half's people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme | 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:024-population-and-cities.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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: [Population and cities, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/7/) - next →: [Population and cities, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/)