China: the four great inventions, sentence 10
Chinese printers often kept using carved woodblocks, because Chinese needs thousands of different characters.
Who acts: Chinese printers, Chinese · What happens: keep, use, carve, need · To what, where: Chinese printers, carved woodblocks, thousands
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 (Chinese printers, Chinese), 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 printers | amod |
| 2 | printers | printer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 woodblocks | amod |
| 7 | woodblocks | woodblock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 using | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 needs | mark |
| 10 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 needs | nsubj |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | advcl |
| 12 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 needs | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 characters | case |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 characters | amod |
| 15 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thousands | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | Chinese printers | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | Chinese printers not said here | carved woodblocks | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodblock=Patient | ||||
| 3 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | need | present | Chinese | thousands of different characters | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thousand=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:10.
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): R8-pos-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.
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