Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 12
Only about a dozen countries officially recognise Taiwan as a country, though many more trade and talk with it unofficially.
Who acts: dozen countries, many more · What happens: recognise, trade, talk · To what, where: Taiwan
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics 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 (dozen countries, many more), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 dozen | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 dozen | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dozen | det |
| 4 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 countries | nummod |
| 5 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 recognise | nsubj |
| 6 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 7 recognise | advmod |
| 7 | recognise | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recognise | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognise | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trade | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 trade | mark |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 more | amod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 trade | nsubj |
| 16 | trade | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 recognise | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 talk | cc |
| 18 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 trade | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 talk | obl |
| 21 | unofficially | unofficially | ADV | _ | 18 talk | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recognise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | present | dozen countries | Taiwan | as a country; officially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer taiwan=Stimulus as country=Attribute | |||
| 2 | trade | present | many more | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | present | many more not said here | with part; unofficially property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-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:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:12.
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 ×3, 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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