China: the four great inventions, sentence 17

A 4,000-year-old bowl of millet noodles was found at Lajia in China; Italy already had pasta before Marco Polo, and the story that he brought noodles home comes from a 1929 American magazine.

Who acts: Italy, story · What happens: find, have, bring, come · To what, where: old bowl, Lajia, pasta, noodles, 1929 American magazine

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 (Italy, story), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
2	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 4,000	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bowl	amod
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 noodles	case
9	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noodles	compound
10	noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bowl	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 Lajia	case
14	Lajia	Lajia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 China	case
16	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Lajia	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
19	already	already	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	parataxis
21	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 Polo	case
23	Marco	Marco	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Polo	compound
24	Polo	Polo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 comes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 story	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 story	det
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 comes	nsubj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 brought	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 brought	nsubj
31	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 story	acl:relcl
32	noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 brought	obj
33	home	home	ADV	_	31 brought	advmod
34	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 had	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	39 magazine	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 magazine	det
37	1929	1929	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 magazine	nummod
38	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 magazine	amod
39	magazine	magazine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 comes	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		a old bowl of millet noodles	Lajia in China			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at lajia=Asset
2	have	past	Italy	pasta		before Marco Polo		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasta=Patient
3	bring	past	story	noodles			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent noodle=Theme
4	come	present	the story		a 1929 American magazine			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from magazine=Initial_Location

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:17.

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): R6-punct-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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