--- title: Think of a school where the head teacher changes every few generatio… — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a school where the head teacher changes every few generations: the building stays, but the rules and the language of the office change, and so did the dynasties of China, India and Persia. Who acts: you, head teacher, building. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, head teacher, building), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:2 # text = Think of a school where the head teacher changes every few generations: the building stays, but the rules and the language of the office change, and so did the dynasties of China, India and Persia. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.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 ×7, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 8 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound 9 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 15 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound 16 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound 27 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 dynasties dynasty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a school | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | present | the head teacher | every few generations | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | present | the building | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past | | the dynasties of China and India and Persia | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=Eventuality | 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:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.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 ×7, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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