Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 2
After a civil war in 1949, the Communist Party set up the People's Republic of China on the mainland, and the losing government moved to the island of Taiwan, keeping the old name, the Republic of China.
Who acts: Communist Party, losing government · What happens: set up, lose, move, keep · To what, where: Republic, mainland, island, old name
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 (Communist Party, losing government), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 war | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 3 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 war | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1949 | case |
| 6 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 war | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 war | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Party | det |
| 9 | Communist | Communist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Party | compound |
| 10 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 People | det |
| 14 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Republic | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 People | case |
| 16 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 China | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Republic | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 mainland | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mainland | det |
| 21 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 moved | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 moved | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 25 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 government | amod |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 moved | nsubj |
| 27 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 island | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 island | det |
| 30 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 moved | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Taiwan | case |
| 32 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 island | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 keeping | punct |
| 34 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 moved | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 name | det |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 name | amod |
| 37 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keeping | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Republic | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Republic | det |
| 40 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 name | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 China | case |
| 42 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Republic | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past | the Communist Party | the People's Republic of China | the mainland | after a civil war in 1949 | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent republic=Theme on mainland=Destination | ||
| 2 | lose | gerund | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | move | past | the losing government | the island of Taiwan | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to island=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | the losing government not said here | the old name | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
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:2.
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, 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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