China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 4

Mei says only the Communists fought Japan; the teacher says both the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists did, and the Nationalists fought most of the big battles.

Who acts: Mei, Communists, teacher, Nationalists · What happens: say, fight · To what, where: Japan, most · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mei, Communists, teacher, Nationalists), 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	only	only	ADV	_	5 Communists	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Communists	det
5	Communists	Communist	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 fought	nsubj
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fought	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
12	both	both	CCONJ	_	14 Nationalists	cc:preconj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Nationalists	det
14	Nationalists	nationalist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 says	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Chiang	case
16	Chiang	Chiang	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Nationalists	nmod
17	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Chiang	flat
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 shek	punct
19	shek	shek	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Chiang	appos
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Communists	det
22	Communists	Communist	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shek	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fought	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Nationalists	det
27	Nationalists	nationalist	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 fought	nsubj
28	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Nationalists	conj
29	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 fought	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 battles	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 battles	det
32	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 battles	amod
33	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 most	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mei		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fight	past	the Communists	Japan	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent japan=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the teacher		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	fight	past	the Nationalists	most of the big battles	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Co-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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:4.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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