China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 22

Both Ukraine and China have long, rich histories; every nation has proud myths, and checking them kindly against sources is what history class is for.

Who acts: Ukraine, nation, history class · What happens: have, check, be · To what, where: long rich histories, proud myths, myths, sources

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 (Ukraine, nation, 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	2 Ukraine	cc:preconj
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 China	cc
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ukraine	conj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 histories	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 histories	punct
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 histories	amod
9	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 nation	det
12	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 myths	amod
15	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 checking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
18	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 has	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 checking	obj
20	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	18 checking	advmod
21	against	against	ADP	_	22 sources	case
22	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 checking	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 sources	acl
25	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 class	compound
26	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 what	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
28	for	for	ADP	_	24 what	case
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Ukraine and China	long rich histories		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient
2	have	present	every nation	proud myths		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient
3	check	gerund		myths = myth	against sources; kindly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	present	history class	sources not said here		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:22.

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. 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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