China: the Song and the Mongols, sentence 5

Mei also says the Mongols never lost a battle; ask Japan, where storms helped wreck two Mongol fleets, or Egypt, where the Mongols lost at Ain Jalut.

Who acts: Mei, Mongols, storms · What happens: say, not lose, ask, help, wreck, lose · To what, where: battle, Japan, two Mongol fleets, Ain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mei, Mongols, storms), 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	Mei	mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mongols	det
5	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 lost	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 lost	advmod
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 battle	det
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 ask	punct
11	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	conj
12	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ask	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 helped	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 helped	advmod
15	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 helped	nsubj
16	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Japan	acl:relcl
17	wreck	wreck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 helped	xcomp
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 fleets	nummod
19	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fleets	amod
20	fleets	fleet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wreck	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Egypt	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 Egypt	cc
23	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Japan	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lost	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 lost	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Mongols	det
27	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 lost	nsubj
28	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Egypt	acl:relcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 Ain	case
30	Ain	Ain	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lost	obl
31	Jalut	Jalut	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Ain	flat
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not lose	past	the Mongols	a battle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Mei not said here		Japan or Egypt		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent japan=Recipient
4	help	past	storms				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	wreck	infinitive	storms not said here	two Mongol fleets			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient
6	lose	past	the Mongols			Ain	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at ain=Eventuality

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:5.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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