China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 8
Mao's Great Leap Forward caused a terrible famine, and his Cultural Revolution closed schools and hurt millions.
Who acts: Great Leap, Cultural Revolution, Mao · What happens: cause, close, hurt, leap · To what, where: terrible famine, schools, millions
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 (Great Leap, Cultural Revolution, Mao), 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 | Mao | Mao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Leap | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mao | case |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Leap | amod |
| 4 | Leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 5 | Forward | forward | PROPN | _ | 6 caused | flat |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 famine | det |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 famine | amod |
| 9 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 closed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 closed | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Revolution | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Revolution | amod |
| 14 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 closed | nsubj |
| 15 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | conj |
| 16 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 closed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hurt | cc |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 closed | conj |
| 19 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hurt | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | Mao's Great Leap | a terrible famine | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition famine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | close | past | Leap's Cultural Revolution | schools | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hurt | past | Leap's Cultural Revolution not said here | millions | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer million=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leap | Mao | nom leap «act 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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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