China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 5
Think of a family photo album: the newest pages have clear photos, the oldest have only drawings and grandma's stories.
Who acts: you, newest pages, oldest · What happens: think, have · To what, where: clear photos, drawings
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 (you, newest pages, oldest), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 album | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 album | det |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 photo | compound |
| 5 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 album | compound |
| 6 | album | album | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pages | det |
| 9 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 pages | amod |
| 10 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 photos | amod |
| 13 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 oldest | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 oldest | det |
| 16 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | parataxis |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 drawings | advmod |
| 19 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stories | cc |
| 21 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stories | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 grandma | case |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drawings | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a photo album | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the newest pages | clear photos | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the oldest | drawings and grandma's stories | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Patient |
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:5.
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 ×2. 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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