Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 5
China's government says Taiwan is part of China and must one day be joined, and has not ruled out force; polls show most people in Taiwan want to keep things as they are.
Who acts: government, Taiwan, polls, most people, People · What happens: say, be, join, not rule out, show, want · To what, where: part, force, things · 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 (government, Taiwan, polls, most people), 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 government | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 China | case |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 joined | cc |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 joined | aux |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 joined | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 joined | aux:pass |
| 15 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 part | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ruled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ruled | cc |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ruled | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 ruled | advmod |
| 20 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 part | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 ruled | compound:prt |
| 22 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ruled | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 show | punct |
| 24 | polls | poll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 show | nsubj |
| 25 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 people | amod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 want | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Taiwan | case |
| 29 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 people | nmod |
| 30 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 show | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 keep | mark |
| 32 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 want | xcomp |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keep | obj |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 are | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 are | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 keep | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | China's government | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Taiwan | part | of China | tree rules | |||
| 3 | join | must · passive | Taiwan not said here | day | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | not rule out | present · perfect | Taiwan not said here | force | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | present | polls | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | want | present | most people in Taiwan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | most people in Taiwan not said here | things | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 8 | does | present | People | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.
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): 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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