Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 6
The Great Wall is not one wall but many, built over 2,000 years against horse-riding raiders from the north.
Who acts: Great Wall · What happens: not be, be, build · To what, where: one wall
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 (Great Wall), 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 Wall | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wall | amod |
| 3 | Wall | Wall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wall | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wall | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 wall | nummod |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 many | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wall | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 many | punct |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 many | acl |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 2,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 built | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 raiders | case |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 riding | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 horse | punct |
| 18 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 raiders | compound |
| 19 | raiders | raider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 built | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 north | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 north | det |
| 22 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 raiders | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wall | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the Great Wall | one wall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Great Wall not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | build | participle | year | against riding raiders from the north | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:6.
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): 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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