China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 3

In 1974 farmers digging a well near Xi'an hit clay: they had found the Terracotta Army, thousands of life-size soldiers guarding his tomb, each face different.

Who acts: farmers, size soldiers · What happens: dig, hit, find, guard · To what, where: well, Xi'an, clay, 1974, Terracotta Army, tomb

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, size soldiers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1974	case
2	1974	1974	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 hit	obl
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	nsubj
4	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 farmers	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 digging	obj
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 Xi'an	case
8	Xi'an	Xi'an	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 well	nmod
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hit	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Army	det
16	Terracotta	Terracotta	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Army	compound
17	Army	Army	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 farmers	punct
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Army	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 soldiers	case
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 size	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 life	punct
23	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 soldiers	compound
24	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thousands	nmod
25	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 soldiers	acl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tomb	nmod:poss
27	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guarding	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 face	punct
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 face	det
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tomb	conj
31	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 face	amod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dig	gerund	farmers not said here	a well	Xi'an	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent well=Theme near xi'an=Location
2	hit	past	farmers	clay	1974	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clay=Theme in 1974=Destination
3	find	past · perfect	farmers = farmer	the Terracotta Army		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Topic
4	guard	gerund	size soldiers not said here	Qin's tomb and each face		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Beneficiary

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:3.

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): no change. 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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