China: the Song and the Mongols, sentence 1
Imagine paying for a bun with a printed note while most of Europe still paid in coins.
Who acts: you, most · What happens: imagine, pay, print · To what, where: coins
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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 (you, most), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Imagine | xcomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 bun | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bun | det |
| 5 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paying | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 note | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 note | det |
| 8 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 note | amod | |
| 9 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paying | obl |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 paid | mark |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 paid | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Europe | case |
| 13 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 most | nmod |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 paid | advmod |
| 15 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paying | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 coins | case |
| 17 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 paid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | you not said here | for a bun; with a printed note | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 4 | pay | past | most of Europe | coins | still | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:1.
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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