Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today, sentence 4
In a strategy game a city is a dot with a number; in real life it is millions of people who need homes, water, food from far-away farms and a way to get to work.
Who acts: city, people · What happens: be, need, get · To what, where: dot, strategy game, millions, real life, homes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» 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 (city, people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 3 | strategy | strategy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 game | compound |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dot | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dot | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dot | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dot | det |
| 9 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 number | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dot | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 millions | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 millions | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 millions | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 millions | cop |
| 19 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dot | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 millions | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 need | nsubj |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 need | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 water | punct |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 homes | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 food | punct |
| 28 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 homes | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 farms | case |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 away | advmod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 far | punct |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 farms | amod |
| 33 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 food | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 way | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 way | det |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 homes | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 get | mark |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 way | acl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 work | case |
| 40 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 get | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dot | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a city | a dot | a strategy game | with a number | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | city | millions | real life | of people | tree rules | ||
| 3 | need | present | people | homes and water and food from away farms and a way | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | people not said here | to work result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result |
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:history:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:4.
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): 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.
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