Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 13
The First Emperor was buried with about 8,000 life-size clay soldiers, horses and chariots, the Terracotta Army, each soldier with a different face, probably to guard him after death.
What happens: bury, guard · To what, where: First Emperor, king
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: 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 Emperor | det |
| 2 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Emperor | amod |
| 3 | Emperor | emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buried | aux:pass |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 soldiers | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 8,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 8,000 | 8,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 soldiers | nummod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 life | punct |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soldiers | compound |
| 12 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soldiers | compound |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 horses | punct |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 soldiers | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chariots | cc |
| 17 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 soldiers | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Army | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Army | det |
| 20 | Terracotta | Terracotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Army | compound |
| 21 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 soldiers | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 soldier | punct |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 soldier | det |
| 24 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Army | appos |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 face | det |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 face | amod |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 soldier | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 guard | punct |
| 30 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 32 guard | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 guard | mark |
| 32 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 buried | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 guard | obj |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 death | case |
| 35 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 guard | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 buried | 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 | bury | past · passive | the First Emperor | with 8,000 size clay soldiers and horses and chariots | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | king | after death | probably property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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:13.
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, 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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