China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 21
Traditional Chinese medicine is very old; Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for artemisinin, a malaria drug from sweet wormwood, a plant named in old texts, but many traditional remedies are not proven by tests and some use endangered animals.
Who acts: Traditional Chinese medicine, Tu, tests, some · What happens: be, win, name, not prove, use · To what, where: 2015 Nobel Prize, plant, old texts, many traditional remedies, endangered animals
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 (Traditional Chinese medicine, Tu, tests, some), 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 | Traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 medicine | amod |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 medicine | amod |
| 3 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 won | punct |
| 8 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 won | nsubj |
| 9 | Youyou | Youyou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tu | flat |
| 10 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prize | det |
| 12 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Prize | compound |
| 13 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Prize | compound |
| 14 | Prize | Prize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 won | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 artemisinin | case |
| 16 | artemisinin | artemisinin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Prize | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drug | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drug | det |
| 19 | malaria | malaria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drug | compound |
| 20 | drug | drug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Prize | appos |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 wormwood | case |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wormwood | amod |
| 23 | wormwood | wormwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drug | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 plant | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 plant | det |
| 26 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Prize | appos |
| 27 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 plant | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 texts | case |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 texts | amod |
| 30 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 named | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 proven | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 proven | cc |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 remedies | amod |
| 34 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 remedies | amod |
| 35 | remedies | remedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 proven | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 proven | aux:pass |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 proven | advmod |
| 38 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 old | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 tests | case |
| 40 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 proven | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 use | cc |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 use | nsubj |
| 43 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 proven | conj |
| 44 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 animals | amod |
| 45 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 use | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Traditional Chinese medicine | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | past | Tu | the 2015 Nobel Prize | for artemisinin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for artemisinin=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | name | participle | a plant not said here | old texts | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not prove | present · passive | tests | many traditional remedies | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | use | present | some | endangered animals | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:21.
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 ×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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