China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 14

A 2012 Chinese survey counted all the wall sections from different dynasties at about 21,196 km; most of the stone wall seen in photos was built under the Ming.

Who acts: 2012 Chinese survey · What happens: count, see, build · To what, where: wall sections, different dynasties, stone wall, photos, most, Ming

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 (2012 Chinese survey), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 survey	det
2	2012	2012	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 survey	compound
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 survey	amod
4	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counted	nsubj
5	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 built	parataxis
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sections	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sections	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sections	compound
9	sections	section	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 counted	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 dynasties	case
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dynasties	amod
12	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sections	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 21,196	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 21,196	advmod
15	21,196	21,196	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 km	nummod
16	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 counted	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 built	punct
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 built	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wall	compound
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 most	nmod
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 wall	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 photos	case
25	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seen	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 built	aux:pass
27	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 Ming	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Ming	det
30	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 built	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 counted	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	count	past	a 2012 Chinese survey	all wall sections	different dynasties	21,196 km obl	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent section=Theme
2	see	participle		the stone wall not said here	photos		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	build	past · passive		most of the stone wall	the Ming		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:14.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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