--- title: About 2,500 years ago the teacher Confucius taught kindness, honesty… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics description: About 2,500 years ago the teacher Confucius taught kindness, honesty and respect for parents and teachers, and that rulers should set a good example. Who acts: teacher, rulers. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 4 About 2,500 years ago the teacher Confucius taught kindness, honesty and respect for parents and teachers, and that rulers should set a good example. **Who acts:** teacher, rulers · **What happens:** teach, set · **To what, where:** kindness, good example 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 (teacher, 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:4 # text = About 2,500 years ago the teacher Confucius taught kindness, honesty and respect for 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×6 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 2,500 2500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 7 Confucius Confucius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 8 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the teacher | kindness and honesty and respect | | | | for parents and teachers; ago *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient | | 2 | **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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×6. **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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