Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 2

Europa Universalis 5 lets you "form Great Britain" or push Muscovy across Siberia with a few clicks, but in real life each step took decades and cost the lives and freedom of ordinary people.

Who acts: Europa Universalis, you, step · What happens: let, form, push, take, cost · To what, where: you, Great Britain, Muscovy, Siberia, real life, lives

This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» of the geography 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 (Europa Universalis, you, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Universalis	compound
2	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lets	nsubj
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Universalis	flat
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lets	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 form	punct
7	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lets	xcomp
8	Great	Great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Britain	amod
9	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 form	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 form	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 push	cc
12	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 form	conj
13	Muscovy	muscovy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 push	obj
14	across	across	ADP	_	15 Siberia	case
15	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 push	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 clicks	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 clicks	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clicks	amod
19	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 push	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 life	case
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 life	amod
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obl
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 step	det
26	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lets	conj
28	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 took	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cost	cc
30	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 took	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lives	det
32	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cost	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 freedom	cc
34	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lives	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 people	case
36	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 people	amod
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lives	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Europa Universalis	you				tree rules
2	form in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Great Britain				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location britain=Theme
3	push	infinitive	you not said here	Muscovy	Siberia		with a few clicks	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent muscovy=Theme across siberia=Trajectory
4	take	past	each step		real life	decade		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in life=Location
5	cost	infinitive	each step not said here	the lives of ordinary people and freedom				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme life=Value

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, 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:geography:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:2.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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