China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 13

Modern Chinese characters descend from Shang writing, but the script changed a lot, so an ordinary reader today cannot simply read an oracle bone.

Who acts: Modern Chinese characters, script, ordinary reader · What happens: descend, change, not read · To what, where: Shang writing, lot, oracle bone

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 (Modern Chinese characters, script, ordinary reader), 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	Modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 characters	amod
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 characters	amod
3	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 descend	nsubj
4	descend	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 writing	case
6	Shang	Shang	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 writing	compound
7	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descend	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 changed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 changed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 script	det
11	script	script	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changed	nsubj
12	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descend	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 read	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	24 read	advmod
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 reader	det
18	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reader	amod
19	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 read	nsubj
20	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 read	obl:unmarked
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 read	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 read	advmod
23	simply	simply	ADV	_	24 read	advmod
24	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 descend	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bone	det
26	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bone	compound
27	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 read	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 descend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	present	Modern Chinese characters		Shang writing			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from writing=Location
2	change	past	the script	a lot				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not read	can	a ordinary reader	a oracle bone		today	simply property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic

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: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): 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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