--- title: Gunpowder was discovered in China more than a thousand years ago, an… — Colours of fire: fireworks · tree and pragmatics description: Gunpowder was discovered in China more than a thousand years ago, and it was used for celebrations long before it was used in guns. A sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Colours of fire: fireworks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/) / 12 # Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 12 Gunpowder was discovered in China more than a thousand years ago, and it was used for celebrations long before it was used in guns. **What happens:** discover, use · **To what, where:** Gunpowder, China, guns This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:12 # text = Gunpowder was discovered in China more than a thousand years ago, and it was used for celebrations long before it was used in guns. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Gunpowder gunpowder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 9 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 11 ago ago ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 celebrations celebration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 20 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **discover** | past · passive | | Gunpowder | | China | | ago *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **use** | past · passive | | Gunpowder | | | | for celebrations; long *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for celebration=Eventuality | | 3 | **use** | past · passive | | Gunpowder | | guns | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.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 ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Colours of fire: fireworks, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/11/) - next →: [Colours of fire: fireworks, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/)