China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 20

In spring 1989 students and workers protested in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; on 3–4 June the army cleared the area and many people were killed.

Who acts: students, 4 June army · What happens: protest, clear, kill · To what, where: Tiananmen Square, area, many people

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 (students, 4 June army), 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 spring	case
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 protested	obl
3	1989	1989	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 spring	flat
4	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 protested	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 workers	cc
6	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 students	conj
7	protested	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 Square	case
9	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Square	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Beijing	case
11	Tiananmen	Tiananmen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Square	compound
12	Square	Square	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 protested	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 3	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 3	case
15	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 protested	obl
16	–	-	PUNCT	_	21 cleared	punct
17	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 army	nummod
18	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 army	compound
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 army	det
20	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cleared	nsubj
21	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 protested	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 area	det
23	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cleared	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 killed	cc
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 killed	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 killed	aux:pass
28	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 cleared	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 protested	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protest speech: disagree	past	students and workers		Beijing's Tiananmen Square	spring	on 3	vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clear	past	the 4 June army	the area				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent area=Source
3	kill	past · passive		many people				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:20.

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, R7-rel-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/20/