Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 11
Confucius was a teacher who lived about 2,500 years ago and taught that people should be kind and honest, respect their parents and teachers, and that rulers should set a good example.
Who acts: Confucius, teacher, people, rulers · What happens: be, live, teach, respect, set · To what, where: teacher, parents, good example · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» 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 (Confucius, teacher, people, rulers), 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 | Confucius | Confucius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 teacher | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 teacher | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 2,500 | advmod |
| 8 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taught | cc |
| 12 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 kind | mark |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kind | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 kind | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kind | cop |
| 17 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 taught | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 honest | cc |
| 19 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kind | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 respect | punct |
| 21 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kind | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 parents | nmod:poss |
| 23 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 respect | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 teachers | cc |
| 25 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 parents | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 set | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 set | mark |
| 29 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 set | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 set | aux |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kind | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 example | det |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 example | amod |
| 34 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 set | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teacher | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Confucius | a teacher | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a teacher | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | a teacher not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | should | people | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | respect | infinitive | people not said here | people's parents and teachers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | set | should | rulers | a good example | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=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:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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