--- title: Early Chinese history is like that: the Shang pages have writing, th… — China: five thousand years and the oldest dynast… · tree and pragmatics description: Early Chinese history is like that: the Shang pages have writing, the Xia pages are still debated, and the Yellow Emperor is a beloved story. Who acts: Early Chinese history, Shang pages, Yellow Emperor. 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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 (Early Chinese history, Shang pages, Yellow Emperor), 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:6 # text = Early Chinese history is like that: the Shang pages have writing, the Xia pages are still debated, and the Yellow Emperor is a beloved story. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Shang Shang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Xia Xia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 debated debate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Emperor emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Early Chinese history | | | | | like that | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | the Shang pages | writing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Patient | | 3 | **debate** | present · passive | | the Xia pages | | | still | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the Yellow Emperor | a beloved story | | | | | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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