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description: Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki. Who acts: Japan. A sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 4

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Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki.

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**Who acts:** Japan · **What happens:** choose, shut, let · **To what, where:** path, doors, 1630s, Dutch traders, Nagasaki

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography 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 (Japan), 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:4
# text = Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki.
# 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 ×1
1	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1630s	1630	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
9	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Nagasaki	Nagasaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Japan | another path |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 2 | **shut** | past | Japan *not said here* | path's doors |  | the 1630s |  | to most foreigners | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | gerund | Japan *not said here* | Dutch traders |  | Nagasaki |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trader=Theme |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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