--- title: The game makes this sea a board of fleets and trade routes, which is… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean · tree and pragmatics description: The game makes this sea a board of fleets and trade routes, which is fair, but it hides the people at the oars: galleys on both sides were often rowed by captives and enslaved people. Who acts: game, trade routes, captives. 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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 (game, trade routes, captives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:3 # text = The game makes this sea a board of fleets and trade routes, which is fair, but it hides the people at the oars: galleys on both sides were often rowed by captives and enslaved people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 fleets fleet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 oars oar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 26 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 galleys galley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 rowed row VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 captives captive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 enslaved enslaved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | the game | this sea | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sea=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | trade routes | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | present | game | the people | | the oars | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Patient at oar=Location | | 4 | **row** | past · passive | captives and enslaved people | galleys on both sides | | | | often *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location | 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:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:3`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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