China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 12

FIFA recognises cuju, a kicking-ball game from ancient China, as the earliest known form of football; the rules of modern football were written in England in 1863.

Who acts: FIFA, modern football · What happens: recognise, know, write, form, rule · To what, where: cuju, rules, England, football

This is a sentence of the lesson «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» 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 (FIFA, modern football), 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	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 recognises	nsubj
2	recognises	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cuju	cuju	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 recognises	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 game	det
6	kicking	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ball	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 kicking	punct
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 game	compound
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cuju	appos
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 China	case
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 China	amod
12	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 game	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 form	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 form	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 form	det
16	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 form	amod
17	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 form	amod
18	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recognises	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 football	case
20	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 form	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 written	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rules	det
23	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 written	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 football	case
25	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 football	amod
26	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rules	nmod
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 written	aux:pass
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 recognises	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 England	case
30	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 written	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 1863	case
32	1863	1863	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 written	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 recognises	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognise	present	FIFA	cuju		as the earliest known form of football	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cuju=Stimulus as form=Attribute
2	know	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	write	past · passive		the rules of modern football	England	in 1863	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in england=Destination
4	form			football			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	rule		modern football				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:12.

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 ×2, 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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