China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 14
In 2021 China's Tianwen-1 mission orbited Mars and landed the Zhurong rover, which studied the ground and found signs of ancient water; no life was found.
Who acts: Tianwen mission, Zhurong rover · What happens: orbit, land, study, find, sign · To what, where: Mars, 2021, Zhurong rover, ground, signs, life
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 (Tianwen mission, Zhurong rover), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2021 | case |
| 2 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 orbited | obl |
| 3 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mission | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 China | case |
| 5 | Tianwen | Tianwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mission | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 1 | punct |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Tianwen | flat |
| 8 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 orbited | nsubj |
| 9 | orbited | orbit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 orbited | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 landed | cc |
| 12 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 orbited | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rover | det |
| 14 | Zhurong | Zhurong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rover | compound |
| 15 | rover | rover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 landed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 studied | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 studied | nsubj |
| 18 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rover | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 studied | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 studied | conj |
| 23 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 water | amod |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 signs | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 found | punct |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 life | det |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 found | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 found | aux:pass |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 orbited | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 orbited | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | orbit | past | China's Tianwen mission | Mars | 2021 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | land | past | China's Tianwen mission not said here | the Zhurong rover | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme rover=Destination | ||||
| 3 | study | past | the Zhurong rover | the ground | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Topic | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the Zhurong rover not said here | signs of ancient water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | ||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | no life | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sign | ancient water | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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