Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 4
About 2,500 years ago the teacher Confucius taught kindness, honesty and respect for parents and teachers, and that rulers should set a good example.
Who acts: teacher, rulers · What happens: teach, set · To what, where: kindness, good example
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 (teacher, 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2,500 | advmod |
| 2 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 taught | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taught | nsubj |
| 7 | Confucius | Confucius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 teacher | appos |
| 8 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taught | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 honesty | punct |
| 11 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kindness | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 respect | cc |
| 13 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kindness | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 parents | case |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kindness | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 teachers | cc |
| 17 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 parents | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 21 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 set | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taught | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 example | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 example | amod |
| 26 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | the teacher | kindness and honesty and respect | for parents and teachers; ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient | |||
| 2 | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×6. 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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