--- title: Your friend Mei says China has 5,000 years of history and is the old… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics description: Your friend Mei says China has 5,000 years of history and is the oldest country on Earth; the history teacher says Egypt is older. Who acts: friend, China, history teacher, Egypt. 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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 (friend, China, history teacher, Egypt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:0 # text = Your friend Mei says China has 5,000 years of history and is the oldest country on Earth; the history teacher says Egypt is older. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.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 ×3 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod:poss 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 3 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | China | | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | China *not said here* | the oldest country | | Earth | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the history teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | Egypt | | | | | old *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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:0`. **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 ×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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