China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 1

Mei says it has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven may have 10,000: a lovely legend, but surveys count about 8,700.

Who acts: Mei, dynasty, Heaven, surveys · What happens: say, have, count · To what, where: 9,999 rooms, 10,000, 8,700 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» 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, dynasty, Heaven, surveys), 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	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	9,999	9,999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 rooms	nummod
6	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 Heaven	advmod
9	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	advcl
12	10,000	10,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 have	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 legend	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 legend	det
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 legend	amod
16	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 count	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 count	cc
19	surveys	survey	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 count	nsubj
20	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 8,700	advmod
22	8,700	8,700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 count	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	dynasty	9,999 rooms	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	have	may	Heaven	10,000	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 10,000=Patient
4	count	present	surveys	8,700	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 8,700=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:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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