--- title: The Chinese learned to make silk from the cocoons of silkworms that… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Co… · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese learned to make silk from the cocoons of silkworms that eat mulberry leaves, and kept the method secret for centuries. Who acts: Chinese, silkworms. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 7 The Chinese learned to make silk from the cocoons of silkworms that eat mulberry leaves, and kept the method secret for centuries. **Who acts:** Chinese, silkworms · **What happens:** learn, make, eat, keep · **To what, where:** silk, cocoons, mulberry leaves, method 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 (Chinese, silkworms), 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:7 # text = The Chinese learned to make silk from the cocoons of silkworms that eat mulberry leaves, and kept the method secret for centuries. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 3 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cocoons cocoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 silkworms silkworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 mulberry mulberry NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 method method NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past | the Chinese | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | the Chinese *not said here* | silk | | the cocoons of silkworms | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset silk=Product from cocoon=Material | | 3 | **eat** | present | silkworms | mulberry leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | past | the Chinese *not said here* | the method | | | century | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Theme | 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:7`. **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 ×2, 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. 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