China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 1

Mei says the Qing were Chinese like all the others; the teacher says «foreign rulers».

Who acts: Mei, Qing, teacher · What happens: say, be · To what, where: foreign rulers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» 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, Qing, teacher), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Qing	det
4	Qing	Qing	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Chinese	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Chinese	cop
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 others	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 others	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Chinese	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teacher	det
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 rulers	punct
16	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rulers	amod
17	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 says	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 rulers	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Qing		like all others; chinese property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the teacher	foreign rulers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ruler=Topic

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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.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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