China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 0
Mei says the First Emperor was the greatest ruler ever; the teacher says he was a tyrant.
Who acts: Mei, First Emperor, teacher · What happens: say, be · To what, where: greatest ruler, tyrant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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 (Mei, First Emperor, teacher), 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 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Emperor | det |
| 4 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Emperor | amod |
| 5 | Emperor | emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ruler | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ruler | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruler | det |
| 8 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 ruler | amod |
| 9 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 ruler | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tyrant | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tyrant | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tyrant | det |
| 18 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mei | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the First Emperor | the greatest ruler | ever | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | teacher | a tyrant | 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:052-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall.lesson:0.
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, R8-pos-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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