China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 0

Your friend Mei says China has 5,000 years of history and is the oldest country on Earth; the history teacher says Egypt is older.

Who acts: friend, China, history teacher, Egypt · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: oldest country, Earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» 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 (friend, China, history teacher, Egypt), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
3	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 friend	appos
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	5,000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 history	case
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 years	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 country	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 country	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 Earth	case
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 country	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 teacher	det
20	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teacher	compound
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	conj
23	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 older	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 older	cop
25	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 says	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	China			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	China not said here	the oldest country	Earth			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	the history teacher					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	Egypt				old property	tree rules

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:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:0.

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 ×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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