China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 13
The Great Wall is very long but only a few metres wide, and astronauts, including China's Yang Liwei in 2003, said they could not see it with the naked eye (without a telescope) from orbit.
Who acts: Great Wall, few metres, metres · What happens: be, say, not see · To what, where: Wall, orbit · 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 (Great Wall, few metres, metres), 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 Wall | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wall | amod |
| 3 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 metres | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 metres | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 metres | amod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 said | nsubj |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 11 metres | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 astronauts | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 astronauts | cc |
| 15 | astronauts | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 metres | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Liwei | punct |
| 17 | including | include | ADP | _ | 21 Liwei | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Liwei | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 China | case |
| 20 | Yang | Yang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Liwei | compound |
| 21 | Liwei | Liwei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 metres | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 2003 | case |
| 23 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Liwei | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 metres | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | conj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 see | advmod |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 eye | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 eye | det |
| 33 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 eye | amod |
| 34 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obl |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 telescope | punct |
| 36 | without | without | ADP | _ | 38 telescope | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 telescope | det |
| 38 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obl |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 telescope | punct |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 orbit | case |
| 41 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Great Wall | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a few metres include China's Yang Liwei in 2003 and astronauts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not see | could | metres = metre | Wall | orbit | with the naked eye; without a telescope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:13.
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): 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.
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