Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 13
The Chinese discovered that a magnetised needle points north and later used compasses for sailing.
Who acts: Chinese, magnetised needle · What happens: discover, magnetise, point, use · To what, where: compasses
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 (Chinese, magnetised needle), 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 Chinese | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 points | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 needle | det |
| 6 | magnetised | magnetise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 needle | amod |
| 7 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 points | nsubj |
| 8 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | ccomp |
| 9 | north | north | ADV | _ | 8 points | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 used | cc |
| 11 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 used | advmod |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 points | conj |
| 13 | compasses | compass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 used | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sailing | case |
| 15 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the Chinese | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | magnetise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | point | present | a magnetised needle | north property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | use | past | a magnetised needle not said here | compasses | for sailing; late property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent compass=Theme for sailing=Eventuality |
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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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