China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 3
Some of Mei's claims hold: paper, printing, the compass, gunpowder and silk really came from China, FIFA calls the ancient game cuju the earliest known form of football, and wild giant pandas live only in China.
Who acts: Some, paper, FIFA, wild giant pandas, Mei · What happens: hold, come, call, know, live, claim · To what, where: China, game cuju, football · 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 (Some, paper, FIFA, wild giant pandas), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 claims | case |
| 3 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 claims | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Mei | case |
| 5 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 paper | punct |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 printing | punct |
| 10 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paper | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 compass | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 compass | det |
| 13 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gunpowder | punct |
| 15 | gunpowder | gunpowder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 compass | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 silk | cc |
| 17 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 compass | conj |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | ccomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 China | case |
| 21 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 calls | punct |
| 23 | FIFA | FIFA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 calls | nsubj |
| 24 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 game | det |
| 26 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 game | amod |
| 27 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cuju | compound |
| 28 | cuju | cuju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 calls | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 form | det |
| 30 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 form | amod |
| 31 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 form | amod |
| 32 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 calls | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 football | case |
| 34 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 form | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 live | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 live | cc |
| 37 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 pandas | amod |
| 38 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 pandas | amod |
| 39 | pandas | panda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 live | nsubj |
| 40 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 calls | conj |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 China | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 China | case |
| 43 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 live | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Some | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | paper and printing | China | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | present | FIFA | game cuju | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cuju=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | live | present | wild giant pandas | China | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | ||||
| 6 | claim | Mei | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | form | football | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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:3.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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