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title: Ivy's strategy game has armies ready at the click of a button, and L… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ivy's strategy game has armies ready at the click of a button, and Leo thinks jails, police and income tax have always been there. Who acts: strategy game, Leo, jails. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 0

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Ivy's strategy game has armies ready at the click of a button, and Leo thinks jails, police and income tax have always been there.

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**Who acts:** strategy game, Leo, jails · **What happens:** have, think, be, click · **To what, where:** armies, button · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history 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 (strategy game, Leo, jails), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:0
# text = Ivy's strategy game has armies ready at the click of a button, and Leo thinks jails, police and income tax have always been there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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	Ivy	Ivy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	strategy	strategy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	click	click	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	jails	jail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Ivy's strategy game | armies |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | jails and police and income tax |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | always, there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **click** |  |  | a button |  |  |  |  | nom click «event transitive»: of=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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