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title: In Europa Universalis «institutions» like the printing press spread… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Europa Universalis «institutions» like the printing press spread from province to province over a few game decades; in real life ideas often took centuries, and sometimes people pushed back, as when money-changers in Florence banned the new numbers in 1299. Who acts: institutions, life ideas, peo
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# Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 1

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In Europa Universalis «institutions» like the printing press spread from province to province over a few game decades; in real life ideas often took centuries, and sometimes people pushed back, as when money-changers in Florence banned the new numbers in 1299.

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**Who acts:** institutions, life ideas, people, money changers · **What happens:** spread, take, push back, ban · **To what, where:** Europa, new numbers, 1299

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 (institutions, life ideas, people, money changers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:1
# text = In Europa Universalis «institutions» like the printing press spread from province to province over a few game decades; in real life ideas often took centuries, and sometimes people pushed back, as when money-changers in Florence banned the new numbers in 1299.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
9	printing	printing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound
11	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
28	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	changers	changer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	1299	1299	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | institutions  the printing press |  |  | Europa | decade | from province to province | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europa=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | life ideas |  |  |  | century | often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push back** | past | people |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ban** | past | money changers in Florence | the new numbers |  | 1299 |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=Theme |

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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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**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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:1`.

**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 ×4, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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