China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 0
Since about 1980 China has changed faster than almost any country in history.
Who acts: China · What happens: change
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» 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 (China), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 1980 | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 1980 | advmod |
| 3 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 changed | obl |
| 4 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 changed | aux |
| 6 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 changed | xcomp |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 country | advmod |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faster | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 history | case |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 country | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · perfect | China | since 1980 | fast property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:0.
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. 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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