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A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 16 Bi Sheng later made movable type of clay, so Gutenberg did not invent printing but a fast way of printing with metal letters in Europe. **Who acts:** Bi, Gutenberg, fast way · **What happens:** make, not invent, print, type · **To what, where:** movable type, printing, clay 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 (Bi, Gutenberg, fast way), 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:16 # text = Bi Sheng later made movable type of clay, so Gutenberg did not invent printing but a fast way of printing with metal letters in Europe. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Bi Bi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Sheng Sheng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 movable movable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 type type NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 Gutenberg Gutenberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 invent invent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 printing printing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 printing print VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . 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 | **make** | past | Bi | movable type of clay | | | | late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent type=Product | | 2 | **not** **invent** | past · do-support | Gutenberg | printing but a fast way | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent printing=Result | | 3 | **print** | gerund | a fast way *not said here* | | | | | with metal letters in Europe | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **type** | | | clay | | | | | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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