--- title: China made silk for thousands of years and guarded the method; a fam… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics description: China made silk for thousands of years and guarded the method; a famous story says monks smuggled silkworm eggs to Byzantium around 552 AD. Who acts: China, famous story, monks. 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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 (China, famous story, monks), 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:20 # text = China made silk for thousands of years and guarded the method; a famous story says monks smuggled silkworm eggs to Byzantium around 552 AD. # 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 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 guarded guard VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 method method NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 smuggled smuggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 silkworm silkworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Byzantium Byzantium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 around around ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 552 552 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **make** | past | China | silk | | | | for thousands of years | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent silk=Product for thousand=Asset | | 2 | **guard** | past | China *not said here* | the method | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Beneficiary | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a famous story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **smuggle** | past | monks | silkworm eggs | Byzantium | | | 552 AD *obl:unmarked* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme to byzantium=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:051-china-five-thousand-years-the-oldest-dynasties.lesson:20`. **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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