--- title: The First Emperor was also very harsh: forced labour, the burning of… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: The First Emperor was also very harsh: forced labour, the burning of books and cruel punishments are recorded, and his dynasty fell soon after he died. Who acts: First Emperor, dynasty, Qin. 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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 (First Emperor, dynasty, Qin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:052-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall.lesson:10 # text = The First Emperor was also very harsh: forced labour, the burning of books and cruel punishments are recorded, and his dynasty fell soon after he died. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 052-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Emperor emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 burning burning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 punishments punishment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 recorded record VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 dynasty dynasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 26 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | past | the First Emperor | | | | | harsh *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **record** | present · passive | | forced labour and the burning of books and cruel punishments | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | Qin's dynasty | | | | | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **die** | past | Qin | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:052-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall.lesson:10`. **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, 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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