Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 13

The story of an empress whose tea cup caught a cocoon is a legend, but traces of silk in old Chinese graves are reported to be about 8,500 years old.

Who acts: tea cup, story · What happens: catch, be, report · To what, where: cocoon, legend, traces

This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology 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 (tea cup, story), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 legend	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 empress	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 empress	det
5	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 cup	nmod:poss
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cup	compound
8	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	nsubj
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empress	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cocoon	det
11	cocoon	cocoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 legend	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 legend	det
14	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reported	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 traces	cc
17	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reported	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 silk	case
19	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 traces	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 graves	case
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 graves	amod
22	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 graves	amod
23	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 traces	nmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 reported	aux:pass
25	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 legend	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	31 old	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 old	cop
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 8,500	advmod
29	8,500	8,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 old	obl:unmarked
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reported	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 legend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	tea cup	a cocoon			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cocoon=Theme
2	is a	present	the story of a empress	a legend			tree rules
3	report	present · passive		traces of silk in old Chinese graves			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive			year	old property	tree rules

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:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:13.

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. 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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