--- title: Real inventions depended on needs, accidents and resources, not a fi… — Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty… · tree and pragmatics description: Real inventions depended on needs, accidents and resources, not a fixed tree; some were even forgotten, like ways of making Roman concrete in western Europe, so history could have gone differently. Who acts: Real inventions, ways, history. 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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 (Real inventions, ways, history), 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:5 # text = Real inventions depended on needs, accidents and resources, not a fixed tree; some were even forgotten, like ways of making Roman concrete in western Europe, so history could have gone differently. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 inventions invention NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 depended depend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 resources resource NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 of of SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 25 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 concrete concrete NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux _ _ 35 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 36 differently differently ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **depend** | past | Real inventions and resources | | | | | on needs and accidents and a fixed tree | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on need=Theme | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **forget** | past · passive | | some | | | | like ways | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | gerund | ways *not said here* | Roman concrete | | western Europe | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset concrete=Product | | 5 | **go** | could · perfect | history | | | | | differently *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×2, 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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