--- title: Confucius, 551–479 BC, taught respect for family, love of learning,… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics description: Confucius, 551–479 BC, taught respect for family, love of learning, fair rulers and good behaviour; his ideas shaped China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Who acts: Confucius, ideas. 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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 (Confucius, ideas), 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:15 # text = Confucius, 551–479 BC, taught respect for family, love of learning, fair rulers and good behaviour; his ideas shaped China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Confucius Confucius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 551 551 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 appos _ _ 4 – - PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 479 479 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 BC BC NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 learning learning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 shaped shape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 26 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Korea Korea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 Vietnam Vietnam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Confucius | respect and fair rulers and good behaviour | | | | for family and love of learning | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | | 2 | **shape** | past | BC's ideas | China and Korea and Japan and Vietnam | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset china=Product | | 3 | **love** | | | learning | | | | | nom love «feeling 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:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, 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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