China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 20

Chopsticks have been used in China for at least 3,000 years and spread to Japan, Korea and Vietnam; in much of Asia, like India and Thailand, people traditionally eat with hands or spoons and forks.

Who acts: people · What happens: use, spread, eat · To what, where: Chopsticks, China, Japan, much Asia

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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 (people), 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	Chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 3,000	nmod
10	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spread	cc
13	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 used	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Japan	case
15	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 spread	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Korea	punct
17	Korea	Korea	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Japan	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Vietnam	cc
19	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Japan	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 Asia	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 Asia	case
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Asia	amod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Asia	case
24	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 India	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 India	case
27	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Asia	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Thailand	cc
29	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 India	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 people	punct
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 eat	nsubj
32	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	_	33 eat	advmod
33	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	parataxis
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 hands	case
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 eat	obl
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 spoons	cc
37	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hands	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 forks	cc
39	forks	fork	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 spoons	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · perfect · passive		Chopsticks		China	year		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	spread	participle			Japan and Korea and Vietnam				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	present	people			much Asia and India and Thailand		with hands or spoons and forks; traditionally property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:20.

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): no change. 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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