--- title: The Chinese printed books with carved wooden blocks over 1,100 years… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese printed books with carved wooden blocks over 1,100 years ago; the Diamond Sutra of 868 is the oldest dated printed book. Who acts: Diamond Sutra. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/15/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/) / 15 # Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 15 The Chinese printed books with carved wooden blocks over 1,100 years ago; the Diamond Sutra of 868 is the oldest dated printed book. **Who acts:** Diamond Sutra · **What happens:** print, carve, date, be · **To what, where:** oldest dated printed book 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 (Diamond Sutra), 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:15 # text = The Chinese printed books with carved wooden blocks over 1,100 years ago; the Diamond Sutra of 868 is the oldest dated printed book. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 1,100 1,100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Diamond Diamond PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Sutra Sutra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 868 868 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 22 dated date VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 23 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **print** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **carve** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **date** | participle | | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **print** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | the Diamond Sutra of 868 | the oldest dated printed book | | | | ago *property* | tree rules | 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. 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