--- title: The Terracotta Army near Xi'an was found in 1974 by farmers digging… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Terracotta Army near Xi'an was found in 1974 by farmers digging a well; its thousands of life-size clay soldiers have different faces and hairstyles, made from shared moulds with details added by hand. Who acts: farmers, thousands. 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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 (farmers, thousands), 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:11 # text = The Terracotta Army near Xi'an was found in 1974 by farmers digging a well; its thousands of life-size clay soldiers have different faces and hairstyles, made from shared moulds with details added by hand. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Terracotta Terracotta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Army Army PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 near near ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Xi'an Xi'an PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1974 1974 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:agent _ _ 12 digging dig VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 hairstyles hairstyle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 moulds mould NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 36 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **find** | past · passive | farmers | the Terracotta Army near Xi'an | | 1974 | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | | 2 | **dig** | gerund | farmers *not said here* | a well | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | Army's thousands of size clay soldiers | different faces and hairstyles | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 4 | **make** | participle | | different faces and hairstyles *not said here* | | shared moulds | | with details | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from mould=Material | | 5 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | | details *not said here* | | | | by hand | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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