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title: The Art of War, credited to Sun Tzu around the 5th century BC, is a… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Art of War, credited to Sun Tzu around the 5th century BC, is a classic about strategy, widely read today in armies and business schools. Who acts: Art. A sentence of the lesson «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties, sentence 18

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The Art of War, credited to Sun Tzu around the 5th century BC, is a classic about strategy, widely read today in armies and business schools.

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**Who acts:** Art · **What happens:** credit, be, read · **To what, where:** Art, Sun Tzu, classic, armies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: five thousand years and the oldest dynasties» 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 (Art), 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:18
# text = The Art of War, credited to Sun Tzu around the 5th century BC, is a classic about strategy, widely read today in armies and business schools.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	credited	credit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tzu	Tzu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	classic	classic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	strategy	strategy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
24	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **credit** | participle |  | the Art of War *not said here* | Sun Tzu around the 5th century |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tzu=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Art of War | a classic |  |  |  | about strategy | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | participle |  | a classic *not said here* |  | armies and business schools | today | widely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:18`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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