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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 (Confucius, teacher, people, rulers), 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:11 # text = Confucius was a teacher who lived about 2,500 years ago and taught that people should be kind and honest, respect their parents and teachers, and that rulers should set a good example. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Confucius Confucius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 2,500 2500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct 21 respect respect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Confucius | a teacher | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | a teacher | | | | | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | a teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | should | people | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **respect** | infinitive | people *not said here* | people's parents and teachers | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus | | 7 | **set** | should | rulers | a good example | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=Result | 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:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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