China: the four great inventions, sentence 6

China also gave the world porcelain, tea, kites and an early earthquake detector with bronze dragons; a good historian enjoys the true list and checks the extra claims.

Who acts: China, good historian · What happens: give, enjoy, check · To what, where: world porcelain, true list, extra claims

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 (China, good historian), 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	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porcelain	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 porcelain	compound
6	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tea	punct
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 porcelain	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kites	punct
10	kites	kite	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 porcelain	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 detector	cc
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 detector	det
13	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 detector	amod
14	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 detector	compound
15	detector	detector	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 porcelain	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 dragons	case
17	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dragons	compound
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 detector	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 enjoys	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 historian	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 historian	amod
22	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 enjoys	nsubj
23	enjoys	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 list	det
25	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 list	amod
26	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 enjoys	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 checks	cc
28	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 enjoys	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 claims	det
30	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 claims	amod
31	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 checks	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	past	China	the world porcelain and tea and kites and a early earthquake detector with bronze dragons	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porcelain=Theme
2	enjoy	present	a good historian	the true list	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus
3	check	present	a good historian not said here	the extra claims	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=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:6.

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): 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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