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# The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies, sentence 12

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Population numbers in EU5 are estimates, because there were few real censuses, official counts of the people, in 1337 and historians argue about the figures; England's Domesday Book of 1086, a count of land and households made for taxes, was an unusual record for its time.

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**Who acts:** Population numbers, few real censuses, historians, Domesday Book · **What happens:** be, argue, make · **To what, where:** estimates, 1337, count, unusual record

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies» 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 (Population numbers, few real censuses, historians, Domesday Book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:040-the-game-map-and-the-real-map-what-eu5-simplifies.lesson:12
# text = Population numbers in EU5 are estimates, because there were few real censuses, official counts of the people, in 1337 and historians argue about the figures; England's Domesday Book of 1086, a count of land and households made for taxes, was an unusual record for its time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 040-the-game-map-and-the-real-map-what-eu5-simplifies.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	estimates	estimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	censuses	census	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	counts	count	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	Domesday	Domesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1086	1086	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	households	household	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Population numbers in EU5 | estimates and a unusual record |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | few real censuses and official counts of the people |  |  | 1337; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1337=Location |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | historians |  |  |  |  | about the figures | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about figure=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | a count of land and households *not said here* |  |  |  | for taxes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for tax=Asset |
| 5 | **is a** | past | England's Domesday Book of 1086 | a unusual record |  |  | time |  | 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): 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.

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