China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 3
The teacher checks: the World Bank numbers on poverty are real and enormous, the rover found signs of ancient water, not life, and per person China is still a middle-income country.
Who acts: teacher, Bank numbers, rover, China · What happens: check, be, find, sign · To what, where: signs, income country, ancient water
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 (teacher, Bank numbers, rover, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 checks | nsubj |
| 3 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 checks | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 numbers | det |
| 6 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bank | compound |
| 7 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 numbers | compound |
| 8 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 real | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 poverty | case |
| 10 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 numbers | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 real | cop |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 checks | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 enormous | cc |
| 14 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 real | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rover | det |
| 17 | rover | rover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 checks | parataxis |
| 19 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 signs | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 life | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 life | advmod |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 country | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 country | cc |
| 28 | per | per | ADP | _ | 29 person | case |
| 29 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 country | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 country | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 country | cop |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 37 country | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 country | det |
| 34 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 income | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 middle | punct |
| 36 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 country | compound |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 checks | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 checks | 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 | check | present | the teacher | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the Bank numbers on poverty | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the Bank numbers on poverty not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | the rover | signs of ancient water and life | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | China | a income country | still | per person | tree rules | ||
| 6 | sign | ancient water and life | 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:3.
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.
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