China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 18

The Shaolin Temple in Henan province, about 1,500 years old, is famous for kung fu; monks give demonstrations with hard training and some showmanship, but nobody flies, that is film magic.

Who acts: Shaolin Temple, monks, nobody, that · What happens: be, give, fly · To what, where: demonstrations, film magic

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 (Shaolin Temple, monks, nobody, that), 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	3 Temple	det
2	Shaolin	Shaolin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Temple	compound
3	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 famous	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 province	case
5	Henan	Henan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 province	compound
6	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Temple	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 1,500	advmod
9	1,500	1,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 old	obl:unmarked
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Temple	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Temple	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 famous	cop
14	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 fu	case
16	kung	kung	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fu	compound
17	fu	fu	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 famous	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	nsubj
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 famous	parataxis
21	demonstrations	demonstration	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 training	case
23	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 training	amod
24	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 showmanship	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 showmanship	det
27	showmanship	showmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 training	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flies	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 flies	cc
30	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 flies	nsubj
31	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 famous	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 magic	punct
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 magic	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 magic	cop
35	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 magic	compound
36	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flies	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 famous	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Shaolin Temple in Henan province		for kung fu; famous property	tree rules
2	give	present	monks	demonstrations	with hard training and some showmanship	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demonstration=Theme
3	fly	present	nobody			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	that	film magic		tree rules

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:18.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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