China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 6

Early Chinese history is like that: the Shang pages have writing, the Xia pages are still debated, and the Yellow Emperor is a beloved story.

Who acts: Early Chinese history, Shang pages, Yellow Emperor · What happens: be, have, debate · To what, where: writing, Xia pages, beloved story

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 (Early Chinese history, Shang pages, Yellow Emperor), 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	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 history	amod
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 history	amod
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 that	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 that	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pages	det
9	Shang	Shang	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pages	compound
10	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 that	parataxis
12	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 debated	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pages	det
15	Xia	Xia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pages	compound
16	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 debated	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 debated	aux:pass
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 debated	advmod
19	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 that	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 debated	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 story	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Emperor	det
23	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Emperor	amod
24	Emperor	emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 story	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 story	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 story	det
27	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 story	amod
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 debated	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Early Chinese history			like that	tree rules
2	have	present	the Shang pages	writing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Patient
3	debate	present · passive		the Xia pages	still		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
4	is a	present	the Yellow Emperor	a beloved story			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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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