China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 22

In 2019 large protests in Hong Kong began against a bill that would have allowed suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial; in 2020 Beijing introduced a national security law.

Who acts: large protests, bill, suspects, Beijing · What happens: begin, allow, send, introduce · To what, where: 2019, suspects, China, mainland, national security law, 2020

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 (large protests, bill, suspects, Beijing), 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	_	4 protests	case
2	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 began	obl
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 protests	amod
4	protests	protest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 began	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Hong	case
6	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 protests	nmod
7	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hong	flat
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 bill	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bill	det
11	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 allowed	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 allowed	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 allowed	aux
15	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 bill	acl:relcl
16	suspects	suspect	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 allowed	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 sent	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	aux:pass
19	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 allowed	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 mainland	case
21	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
22	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 trial	case
24	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 introduced	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 2020	case
27	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 introduced	obl
28	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 introduced	nsubj
29	introduced	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 law	det
31	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 law	amod
32	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 law	compound
33	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 introduced	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	large protests in Hong	2019		against a bill	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	allow	would · perfect	a bill	suspects			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer suspect=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	send not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	suspects not said here	China	mainland	for trial	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to mainland=Destination
4	introduce	past	Beijing	a national security law	2020		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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:22.

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 ×3, 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.

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