Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 7

The Chinese learned to make silk from the cocoons of silkworms that eat mulberry leaves, and kept the method secret for centuries.

Who acts: Chinese, silkworms · What happens: learn, make, eat, keep · To what, where: silk, cocoons, mulberry leaves, method

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, silkworms), 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 learned	nsubj
3	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learned	xcomp
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 cocoons	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cocoons	det
9	cocoons	cocoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 silkworms	case
11	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cocoons	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 eat	nsubj
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 silkworms	acl:relcl
14	mulberry	mulberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaves	compound
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eat	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learned	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 method	det
20	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obj
21	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kept	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 centuries	case
23	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the Chinese					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive	the Chinese not said here	silk	the cocoons of silkworms			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset silk=Product from cocoon=Material
3	eat	present	silkworms	mulberry leaves				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
4	keep	past	the Chinese not said here	the method		century	secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=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:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:7.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

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