--- title: Games can teach geography, trade-offs and cause and effect, but they… — Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty… · tree and pragmatics description: Games can teach geography, trade-offs and cause and effect, but they simplify, so it is wise to check them against books and people who know the history. Who acts: Games, kings, people. A sentence of the lesson «Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls» of the history --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/80-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Games vs history: tech trees, barbaria…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/80-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls/) / 16 # Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls, sentence 16 Games can teach geography, trade-offs and cause and effect, but they simplify, so it is wise to check them against books and people who know the history. **Who acts:** Games, kings, people · **What happens:** teach, simplify, be, check, know · **To what, where:** geography, kings, history This is a sentence of the lesson «Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls» 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 (Games, kings, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:16 # text = Games can teach geography, trade-offs and cause and effect, but they simplify, so it is wise to check them against books and people who know the history. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 offs off NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 simplify simplify VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | can | Games | geography and trade offs and cause and effect | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent geography=Recipient | | 2 | **simplify** | present | kings *= king* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | kings *= king* *not said here* | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | to-infinitive | | kings *= king* | | | | against books and people | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **know** | present | people | the history | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer history=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:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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