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title: Look around a classroom: paper in your exercise book, a compass in t… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look around a classroom: paper in your exercise book, a compass in the science cupboard, fireworks on New Year's night, printed books on the shelf. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 0

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Look around a classroom: paper in your exercise book, a compass in the science cupboard, fireworks on New Year's night, printed books on the shelf.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look around, print · **To what, where:** classroom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:0
# text = Look around a classroom: paper in your exercise book, a compass in the science cupboard, fireworks on New Year's night, printed books on the shelf.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	22	compound	_	_
22	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look around** | imperative | you *not said here* | a classroom |  |  |  | around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:0`.

**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 ×5, 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.

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

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