China: the four great inventions, sentence 1
This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were first developed in China and spread west over centuries.
Who acts: teacher · What happens: agree, develop, spread · To what, where: four, China
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the four great inventions» 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 (teacher), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agrees | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agrees | nsubj |
| 5 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 5 agrees | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 developed | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 four | det |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 developed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 developed | aux:pass |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 developed | advmod |
| 12 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 agrees | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 China | case |
| 14 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 developed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spread | cc |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 developed | conj |
| 17 | west | west | ADV | _ | 16 spread | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 centuries | case |
| 19 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spread | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agrees | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | the teacher | time | completely property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | develop | past · passive | all four | China | first property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | spread | participle | century | west property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:053-china-the-four-great-inventions.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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