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description: EU5 shows many lands as empty and waiting to be colonised, but nearly all of them were home to people with their own nations and laws. Who acts: EU5. A sentence of the lesson «The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies, sentence 8

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EU5 shows many lands as empty and waiting to be colonised, but nearly all of them were home to people with their own nations and laws.

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**Who acts:** EU5 · **What happens:** show, wait, colonise, be · **To what, where:** many lands

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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 (EU5), 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:8
# text = EU5 shows many lands as empty and waiting to be colonised, but nearly all of them were home to people with their own nations and laws.
# 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): no change
1	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	colonised	colonise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **show** | present | EU5 | many lands |  |  |  | as empty; all *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Recipient |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | EU5 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **colonise** | to-infinitive · passive | EU5 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to people; with states's own nations and laws; home *property* | 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): no change. **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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