--- title: The Great Wall is very long but only a few metres wide, and astronau… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Great Wall is very long but only a few metres wide, and astronauts, including China's Yang Liwei in 2003, said they could not see it with the naked eye (without a telescope) from orbit. Who acts: Great Wall, few metres, metres. 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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 (Great Wall, few metres, metres), 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:13 # text = The Great Wall is very long but only a few metres wide, and astronauts, including China's Yang Liwei in 2003, said they could not see it with the naked eye (without a telescope) from orbit. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Wall Wall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 12 wide wide ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 including include ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 Yang Yang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Liwei Liwei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 2003 2003 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 36 without without ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 telescope telescope NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 orbit orbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | the Great Wall | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a few metres include China's Yang Liwei in 2003 and astronauts | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **see** | could | metres *= metre* | Wall | | orbit | | with the naked eye; without a telescope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:13`. **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): 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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