--- title: Printing was older in East Asia: the Chinese printed with carved woo… — Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation · tree and pragmatics description: Printing was older in East Asia: the Chinese printed with carved wooden blocks, and Korea printed a book with metal type in 1377. Who acts: Printing, Chinese, Korea. 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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 (Printing, Chinese, Korea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:6 # text = Printing was older in East Asia: the Chinese printed with carved wooden blocks, and Korea printed a book with metal type in 1377. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.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): no change 1 Printing printing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 10 printed print VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 13 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 blocks block NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 printed print VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 type type NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1377 1377 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | past | Printing | | | East Asia | | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **print** | past | the Chinese | | | | | with carved wooden blocks | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carve** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **print** | past | Korea | a book | | 1377 | | with metal type | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme in 1377=Destination | 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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