Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 19
For centuries Chinese officials were chosen by hard written exams on classic books, not only by birth.
Who acts: written exams · What happens: choose, write · To what, where: Chinese officials
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 (written exams), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 centuries | case |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chosen | obl |
| 3 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 officials | amod |
| 4 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chosen | aux:pass |
| 6 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 exams | case |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 written | advmod |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 exams | amod |
| 10 | exams | exam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chosen | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 books | case |
| 12 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 books | amod |
| 13 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exams | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 birth | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 birth | advmod |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 birth | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 birth | case |
| 18 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chosen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | written exams on classic books | Chinese officials | century | by birth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | write | participle | hard property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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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