China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 5

Imagine a shop that sells something harmful, and when the town throws it away, the shop's friends arrive with cannons and make the town pay.

Who acts: you, shop, town, friends · What happens: imagine, sell, throw away, arrive, make, pay · To what, where: shop, something, town

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 (you, shop, town, friends), 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	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagine	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sells	nsubj
5	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shop	acl:relcl
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 sells	obj
7	harmful	harmful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throws	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 arrive	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 throws	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throws	nsubj
13	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 arrive	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throws	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 throws	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 arrive	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shop	det
18	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 friends	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 shop	case
20	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 arrive	nsubj
21	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Imagine	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 cannons	case
23	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 arrive	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
25	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 arrive	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 town	det
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
28	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here	a shop		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shop=Theme
2	sell	present	a shop	something		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	throw away	present	the town	shop	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	arrive	present	the shop's friends		with cannons	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	present	the shop's friends not said here	the town		tree rules
6	pay	infinitive	the town not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: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): R5-strong ×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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