Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 0
Chinese civilisation grew along two great rivers, the Yellow River and the Yangtze.
Who acts: Chinese civilisation · What happens: grow · To what, where: two great rivers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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 (Chinese civilisation), 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 civilisation | amod |
| 2 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 rivers | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rivers | nummod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rivers | amod |
| 7 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 River | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 River | det |
| 10 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 River | amod |
| 11 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rivers | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Yangtze | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Yangtze | det |
| 14 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 River | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Chinese civilisation | two great rivers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along river=Location |
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:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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