China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 23
Supporters say it restored order, critics say it cut freedoms; views are strongly divided.
Who acts: Supporters, law, critics · What happens: say, restore, cut, divide · To what, where: order, freedoms, views · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Supporters, law, critics), 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 | Supporters | supporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 restored | nsubj |
| 4 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 restored | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 7 | critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | nsubj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 11 | freedoms | freedom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 views | punct |
| 13 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 divided | aux:pass |
| 15 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 16 divided | advmod |
| 16 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 say | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Supporters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | restore | past | law | order | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | critics | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cut | past | law | freedoms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material freedom=Product | ||||
| 5 | divide | present · passive | views | strongly property | vn multiply-108-1 «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:23.
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): no change. 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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