China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 8

China has one of the longest continuous civilisations in the world, but the states of Egypt and Mesopotamia began earlier; «five thousand years» is a traditional phrase that includes legendary times.

Who acts: China, states, thousand years, traditional phrase · What happens: have, begin, be, include · To what, where: one, traditional phrase

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, states, thousand years, traditional phrase), 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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 has	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 civilisations	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 civilisations	det
6	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 civilisations	amod
7	continuous	continuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 civilisations	amod
8	civilisations	civilisation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 civilisations	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 states	det
15	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 began	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Egypt	case
17	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 states	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Mesopotamia	cc
19	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Egypt	conj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
21	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 began	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 years	punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 years	punct
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 thousand	compound
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 phrase	nsubj
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 years	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 phrase	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 phrase	det
30	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 phrase	amod
31	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	conj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 includes	nsubj
33	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 phrase	acl:relcl
34	legendary	legendary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 times	amod
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 includes	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	China	one of the longest continuous civilisations in the world			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	begin	past	the states of Egypt and Mesopotamia			early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	present	thousand years	a traditional phrase			tree rules
4	include	present	a traditional phrase		time		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:8.

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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