China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 17

Rare Ming blue-and-white porcelain can sell for millions at auction, but much Ming porcelain was exported in huge numbers and ordinary pieces are not so valuable.

Who acts: Rare Ming blue porcelain, ordinary pieces · What happens: sell, export, not be · To what, where: auction, much Ming porcelain, huge numbers

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 (Rare Ming blue porcelain, ordinary pieces), 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	Rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 porcelain	amod
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 porcelain	compound
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 porcelain	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 blue	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 white	cc
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blue	conj
8	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sell	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sell	aux
10	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 millions	case
12	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sell	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 auction	case
14	auction	auction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 exported	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 exported	cc
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 porcelain	amod
18	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 porcelain	compound
19	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 exported	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 exported	aux:pass
21	exported	export	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sell	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 numbers	case
23	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 numbers	amod
24	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 exported	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 valuable	cc
26	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pieces	amod
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 valuable	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 valuable	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 valuable	advmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 valuable	advmod
31	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 exported	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sell	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	can	Rare Ming blue porcelain		auction	for millions	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for million=Asset
2	export	past · passive		much Ming porcelain	huge numbers		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not is	present	ordinary pieces			valuable property	tree rules

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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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