China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 8

After the Qin came the Han, a dynasty so important that most Chinese people still call themselves Han; they chose officials by exams, sent the traveller Zhang Qian west, and improved paper.

Who acts: Han, most Chinese people, people · What happens: come, call, chose, send, improve · To what, where: people, officials, traveller, paper · 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 (Han, most Chinese people, people), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 Qin	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Qin	det
3	Qin	Qin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Han	det
6	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dynasty	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dynasty	det
9	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Han	appos
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 important	advmod
11	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dynasty	amod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 call	mark
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 people	amod
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 call	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 call	advmod
17	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 important	advcl
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 call	obj
19	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 call	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 chose	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 chose	nsubj
22	chose	chose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 call	conj
23	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 chose	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 exams	case
25	exams	exam	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 chose	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
27	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 chose	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 traveller	det
29	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	obj
30	Zhang	Zhang	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 traveller	appos
31	Qian	Qian	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Zhang	flat
32	west	west	ADV	_	29 traveller	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 improved	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 improved	cc
35	improved	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	conj
36	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 improved	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Han		after the Qin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	present	most Chinese people	people	still		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
3	chose	present	people	officials		by exams	tree rules
4	send	past	people not said here	the traveller			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme
5	improve	past	people not said here	paper			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paper=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.

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:8.

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 ×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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