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title: Think of a family photo album: the newest pages have clear photos, t… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a family photo album: the newest pages have clear photos, the oldest have only drawings and grandma's stories. Who acts: you, newest pages, oldest. 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 5

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Think of a family photo album: the newest pages have clear photos, the oldest have only drawings and grandma's stories.

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**Who acts:** you, newest pages, oldest · **What happens:** think, have · **To what, where:** clear photos, drawings

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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 (you, newest pages, oldest), 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:5
# text = Think of a family photo album: the newest pages have clear photos, the oldest have only drawings and grandma's stories.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	album	album	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	newest	new	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	drawings	drawing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a photo album | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the newest pages | clear photos |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | the oldest | drawings and grandma's stories |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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