--- title: In a strategy game a city is a dot with a number; in real life it is… — Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every… · tree and pragmatics description: In a strategy game a city is a dot with a number; in real life it is millions of people who need homes, water, food from far-away farms and a way to get to work. Who acts: city, people. 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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 (city, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:4 # text = In a strategy game a city is a dot with a number; in real life it is millions of people who need homes, water, food from far-away farms and a way to get to work. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 strategy strategy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 33 amod _ _ 33 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a city | a dot | | a strategy game | | with a number | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | city | millions | | real life | | of people | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | people | homes and water and food from away farms and a way | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | to work *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | 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:history:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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