China: the four great inventions, sentence 13

Porcelain was perfected in China, especially at Jingdezhen; the word «china» for porcelain comes from the country's name, which probably comes from the Qin.

Who acts: word, name, country · What happens: perfect, come, name · To what, where: Porcelain, China, name, Qin

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 (word, name, country), 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	Porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perfected	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perfected	aux:pass
3	perfected	perfect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 China	case
5	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 perfected	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Jingdezhen	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	9 Jingdezhen	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Jingdezhen	case
9	Jingdezhen	Jingdezhen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 perfected	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	nsubj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 china	punct
14	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 china	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 porcelain	case
17	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	obl
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 perfected	parataxis
19	from	from	ADP	_	23 name	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 name	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 country	case
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 comes	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 comes	nsubj
26	probably	probably	ADV	_	27 comes	advmod
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 name	acl:relcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 Qin	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Qin	det
30	Qin	Qin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 comes	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perfected	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perfect	past · passive		Porcelain	China	at Jingdezhen	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	come	present	the word		the country's name	for porcelain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from name=Initial_Location
3	come	present	the country's name		the Qin	probably property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from qin=Initial_Location
4	name		the country				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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