Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 14
Farmers digging a well found the Terracotta Army in 1974.
Who acts: Farmers · What happens: dig, find · To what, where: well, Terracotta Army, 1974
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 (Farmers), 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 | Farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 2 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Farmers | acl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 well | det |
| 4 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 digging | obj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Army | det |
| 7 | Terracotta | Terracotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Army | compound |
| 8 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1974 | case |
| 10 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 found | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | gerund | Farmers not said here | a well | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Farmers | the Terracotta Army | 1974 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Topic |
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:14.
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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