China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 2

The history teacher smiles, because every country tells its story with pride, and history class is where the proud stories get checked, kindly.

Who acts: history teacher, country, history class · What happens: smile, tell, be, check · To what, where: story, proud stories · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (history teacher, country, history class), 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 teacher	det
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	compound
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smiles	nsubj
4	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tells	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 tells	mark
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	nsubj
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smiles	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 story	nmod:poss
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 pride	case
13	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 where	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 where	cc
16	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 class	compound
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 where	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 where	cop
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 tells	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stories	det
21	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stories	amod
22	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 checked	nsubj:pass
23	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 checked	aux:pass
24	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 where	advcl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kindly	punct
26	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	24 checked	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smiles	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smile	present	the history teacher			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	every country	country's story	with pride	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	is	present	history class		where property	tree rules
4	check	present · passive		the proud stories	kindly property	vn assessment-34.1 «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:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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