Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls, sentence 0

A strategy game is like a map of the London Underground: brilliantly useful, but the real city has bends, hills and millions of people the map leaves out; this last lesson of the block checks what Civilization-style games and Europa Universalis get right and what they squash flat.

Who acts: strategy game, real city, map, last lesson, style games, bends · What happens: be, have, leave out, check, get, squash · To what, where: bends, people

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 (strategy game, real city, map, last lesson), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
2	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	compound
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 map	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 map	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 map	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 map	det
7	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Underground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Underground	det
10	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Underground	compound
11	Underground	Underground	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 map	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 useful	punct
13	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	14 useful	advmod
14	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 map	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 has	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 city	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 city	amod
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 useful	conj
21	bends	bend	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hills	punct
23	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bends	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 millions	cc
25	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bends	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 millions	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 map	det
29	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaves	nsubj
30	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 people	acl:relcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 leaves	compound:prt
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 lesson	punct
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 lesson	det
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lesson	amod
35	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 checks	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 block	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 block	det
38	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lesson	nmod
39	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 map	parataxis
40	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	44 games	det
41	Civilization	civilization	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 style	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 Civilization	punct
43	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 games	compound
44	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 get	nsubj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 Europa	cc
46	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 games	conj
47	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Europa	flat
48	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 checks	ccomp
49	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 get	xcomp
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 what	cc
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 get	obj
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 squash	nsubj
53	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 what	acl:relcl
54	flat	flat	ADV	_	53 squash	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 map	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a strategy game		like a map; of the London Underground	tree rules
2	have	present	the real city	bends and hills and millions of people		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bend=Patient
3	leave out	present	the map	people not said here		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	check	present	this last lesson of the block			tree rules
5	get	present	what style games and Europa		right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	squash	present	bends = bend		flat property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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, 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:0.

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. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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