China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 7
The Wall is many walls from many dynasties, and even China's astronaut Yang Liwei said he could not see it from orbit.
Who acts: Wall, astronaut · What happens: be, say, not see · To what, where: many walls, many dynasties, 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 (Wall, astronaut), 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 | 2 Wall | det |
| 2 | Wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walls | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 walls | cop |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 walls | amod |
| 5 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 dynasties | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dynasties | amod |
| 8 | dynasties | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walls | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 astronaut | advmod |
| 12 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 astronaut | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 China | case |
| 14 | astronaut | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 15 | Yang | Yang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 astronaut | appos |
| 16 | Liwei | Liwei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yang | flat |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walls | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 orbit | case |
| 24 | orbit | orbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walls | 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 | is a | present | the Wall | many walls | many dynasties | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | China's astronaut | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not see | could | astronaut | Wall | orbit | 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:7.
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): R6-punct-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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