China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 24

From 1978 Deng Xiaoping opened China to markets, letting people run their own farms and businesses and letting foreign companies build factories; special zones with easier rules for business, like Shenzhen, once a small fishing town, grew into huge cities, and hundreds of millions left poverty, though not everyone became rich.

Who acts: Deng, people, foreign companies, special zones, everyone · What happens: open, let, run, build, grow, leave · To what, where: China, markets, 1978, own farms, factories, huge cities

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» 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 (Deng, people, foreign companies, special zones), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 1978	case
2	1978	1978	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 opened	obl
3	Deng	Deng	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
4	Xiaoping	Xiaoping	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Deng	flat
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 markets	case
8	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 letting	punct
10	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 opened	advcl
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 run	nsubj
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 letting	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 farms	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 farms	amod
15	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 run	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 businesses	cc
17	businesses	business	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 farms	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 letting	cc
19	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 letting	conj
20	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 companies	amod
21	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 build	nsubj
22	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 letting	xcomp
23	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 build	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 zones	punct
25	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 zones	amod
26	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 grew	nsubj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 rules	case
28	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 rules	amod
29	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 zones	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 business	case
31	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rules	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Shenzhen	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 Shenzhen	case
34	Shenzhen	Shenzhen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 zones	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 town	punct
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	40 town	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 town	det
38	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 town	amod
39	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 town	compound
40	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Shenzhen	appos
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 grew	punct
42	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 letting	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 cities	case
44	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cities	amod
45	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 grew	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 hundreds	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hundreds	cc
48	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 grew	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 millions	case
50	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 hundreds	nmod
51	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 grew	conj
52	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 left	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 became	punct
54	though	though	SCONJ	_	57 became	mark
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 everyone	advmod
56	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	57 became	nsubj
57	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 left	advcl
58	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 became	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	Deng	China	markets	1978		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent china=Patient to market=Recipient
2	let	gerund	Deng not said here					tree rules
3	run	infinitive	people	People's own farms and businesses				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme farm=Trajectory
4	let	gerund	Deng not said here					tree rules
5	build	infinitive	foreign companies	factories				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset factory=Product
6	grow	past	special zones with easier rules for business like Shenzhen				into huge cities result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into city=Result
7	leave	past	special zones with easier rules for business like Shenzhen not said here	poverty				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poverty=Theme
8	become	past	everyone				rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:24.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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