China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 13

People in Tang China kept ice and made frozen milk desserts; Persians and Arabs also made frozen sweets, so ice cream has several early homes and no clear first.

Who acts: People, Persians, ice cream · What happens: keep, make, freeze, have · To what, where: ice, frozen milk desserts, frozen sweets, several early homes

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 (People, Persians, ice cream), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 China	case
3	Tang	Tang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 China	compound
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 desserts	amod
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 desserts	compound
11	desserts	dessert	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 Persians	punct
13	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 made	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Arabs	cc
15	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 Persians	conj
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
18	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sweets	amod
19	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 has	advmod
22	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cream	compound
23	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 homes	amod
26	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 homes	amod
27	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 has	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 clear	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 first	det
30	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 has	conj
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 homes	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	People in Tang China	ice	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme
2	make	past	People in Tang China not said here	frozen milk desserts	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dessert=Product
3	freeze	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	make	past	Persians and Arabs	frozen sweets	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Product
5	have	present	ice cream	several early homes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:13.

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, R8-pos-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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