China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 13

Historians add that the Qing court was in fact curious about Western things but refused Britain's terms.

Who acts: Historians, Qing court, Britain · What happens: add, be, refuse, term · To what, where: fact, terms · 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 (Historians, Qing court, Britain), 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	Historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 add	nsubj
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 curious	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
5	Qing	Qing	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 court	compound
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curious	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 curious	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 fact	case
9	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curious	obl
10	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 add	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 things	case
12	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 curious	obl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 refused	cc
15	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 add	conj
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 terms	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Britain	case
18	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 refused	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Historians				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the Qing court		fact	about Western things; curious property	tree rules
3	refuse	past	Historians not said here	Britain's terms			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme
4	term		Britain				nom term «communication transitive»: poss=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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:13.

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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