Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 15
The US does not officially recognise Taiwan as a country, but a US law says it will help Taiwan defend itself and it sells Taiwan weapons; for years it has not said clearly whether it would fight for Taiwan.
Who acts: US, US law, law, Taiwan · What happens: not recognise, say, help, defend, sell, not say · To what, where: Taiwan, law, Taiwan weapons · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (US, US law, law, Taiwan), 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 | 2 US | det |
| 2 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 recognise | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 recognise | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 recognise | advmod |
| 5 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 6 recognise | advmod |
| 6 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 recognise | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognise | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 law | det |
| 14 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 law | compound |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 recognise | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 says | ccomp |
| 20 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | xcomp |
| 22 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 defend | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sells | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sells | nsubj |
| 25 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | conj |
| 26 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 weapons | compound |
| 27 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sells | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 years | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 said | obl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 said | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 said | advmod |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 recognise | parataxis |
| 35 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 34 said | advmod |
| 36 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 39 fight | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 fight | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 fight | aux |
| 39 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | ccomp |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 Taiwan | case |
| 41 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 fight | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recognise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not recognise | present · do-support | the US | Taiwan | as a country; officially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer taiwan=Stimulus as country=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a US law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help | future | law | Taiwan | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent taiwan=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | defend | infinitive | Taiwan not said here | law | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | sell | present | law | Taiwan weapons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not say speech: assert | present · perfect | law | year | clearly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 7 | fight | would | law | for Taiwan | vn battle-36.4-1 «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:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:15.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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