China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 9
Qin Shi Huang united China in 221 BC and standardised writing, coins, weights and the width of cart axles, and built roads.
Who acts: Qin · What happens: unite, standardise, build · To what, where: China, 221, writing, roads
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 (Qin), 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 | Qin | Qin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 united | nsubj |
| 2 | Shi | Shi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Qin | flat |
| 3 | Huang | Huang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Qin | flat |
| 4 | united | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 united | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 221 | case |
| 7 | 221 | 221 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 united | obl |
| 8 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 221 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 standardised | cc |
| 10 | standardised | standardise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 united | conj |
| 11 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standardised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coins | punct |
| 13 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 writing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weights | punct |
| 15 | weights | weight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 writing | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 width | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 width | det |
| 18 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 writing | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 axles | case |
| 20 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 axles | compound |
| 21 | axles | axle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 width | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 roads | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 roads | cc |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 united | conj |
| 25 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 built | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 united | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unite | past | Qin | China | 221 BC | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Patient | |||
| 2 | standardise | past | Qin not said here | writing and coins and weights and the width of cart axles | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | past | Qin not said here | roads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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