China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 20

China made silk for thousands of years and guarded the method; a famous story says monks smuggled silkworm eggs to Byzantium around 552 AD.

Who acts: China, famous story, monks · What happens: make, guard, say, smuggle · To what, where: silk, method, silkworm eggs, Byzantium · 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 (China, famous story, monks), 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	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 thousands	case
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 guarded	cc
9	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 method	det
11	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guarded	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 story	det
14	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 story	amod
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
17	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 smuggled	nsubj
18	smuggled	smuggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 says	ccomp
19	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eggs	compound
20	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 smuggled	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Byzantium	case
22	Byzantium	Byzantium	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 smuggled	obl
23	around	around	ADV	_	24 552	advmod
24	552	552	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 AD	nummod
25	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smuggled	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	China	silk		for thousands of years	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent silk=Product for thousand=Asset
2	guard	past	China not said here	the method			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	present	a famous story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	smuggle	past	monks	silkworm eggs	Byzantium	552 AD obl:unmarked	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme to byzantium=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:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:20.

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 ×1, 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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