China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 11
The Terracotta Army near Xi'an was found in 1974 by farmers digging a well; its thousands of life-size clay soldiers have different faces and hairstyles, made from shared moulds with details added by hand.
Who acts: farmers, thousands · What happens: find, dig, have, make, share, add · To what, where: Terracotta Army, 1974, well, different faces, shared moulds, details
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 (farmers, thousands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Army | det |
| 2 | Terracotta | Terracotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Army | compound |
| 3 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 Xi'an | case |
| 5 | Xi'an | Xi'an | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Army | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1974 | case |
| 9 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 found | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 farmers | case |
| 11 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl:agent |
| 12 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 farmers | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 digging | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thousands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 soldiers | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 size | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 life | punct |
| 21 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 soldiers | compound |
| 22 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 soldiers | compound |
| 23 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thousands | nmod |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | parataxis |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 faces | amod |
| 26 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hairstyles | cc |
| 28 | hairstyles | hairstyle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 faces | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 faces | acl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 moulds | case |
| 32 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 moulds | amod |
| 33 | moulds | mould | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 made | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 details | case |
| 35 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 made | obl |
| 36 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 details | acl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 added | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | farmers | the Terracotta Army near Xi'an | 1974 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | dig | gerund | farmers not said here | a well | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Army's thousands of size clay soldiers | different faces and hairstyles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | different faces and hairstyles not said here | shared moulds | with details | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from mould=Material | |||
| 5 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | participle | details not said here | by hand | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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.
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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): R2-punct-next ×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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