Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 6
Printing was older in East Asia: the Chinese printed with carved wooden blocks, and Korea printed a book with metal type in 1377.
Who acts: Printing, Chinese, Korea · What happens: be, print, carve · To what, where: East Asia, book, 1377
This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 (Printing, Chinese, Korea), 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 | Printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 older | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 older | cop |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Asia | case |
| 5 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Asia | compound |
| 6 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 older | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Chinese | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Chinese | det |
| 9 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 printed | nsubj |
| 10 | printed | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 older | parataxis | |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 blocks | case |
| 12 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 blocks | amod |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blocks | amod |
| 14 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 printed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 printed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 printed | cc |
| 17 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 printed | nsubj |
| 18 | printed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 printed | conj | |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 book | det |
| 20 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 printed | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 type | case |
| 22 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 type | compound |
| 23 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 book | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1377 | case |
| 25 | 1377 | 1377 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 printed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 older | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Printing | East Asia | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | past | the Chinese | with carved wooden blocks | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | past | Korea | a book | 1377 | with metal type | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme in 1377=Destination |
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:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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