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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 (you, handful, real conquests, local allies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:1 # text = In Europa Universalis you colonise «empty» provinces with a few natives in them, and a handful of conquistadors can take an empire; real conquests needed local allies who hated their old rulers, and diseases that the newcomers did not even understand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 Universalis Universalis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 colonise colonise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 provinces province NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 natives native NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 conquistadors conquistador NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 conquests conquest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 allies ally NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 hated hate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 obj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 newcomers newcomer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 43 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl:relcl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **colonise** | present | you | empty provinces | | Europa | | with a few natives in natives | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | can | a handful of conquistadors | a empire | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme | | 3 | **need** | past | real conquests | local allies and diseases | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ally=Theme | | 4 | **hate** | past | local allies and diseases | conquests's old rulers | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ruler=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | the newcomers | diseases | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | 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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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): 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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