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description: A 2012 Chinese survey counted all the wall sections from different dynasties at about 21,196 km; most of the stone wall seen in photos was built under the Ming. Who acts: 2012 Chinese survey. A sentence of the lesson «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» of the history c
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# China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 14

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A 2012 Chinese survey counted all the wall sections from different dynasties at about 21,196 km; most of the stone wall seen in photos was built under the Ming.

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**Who acts:** 2012 Chinese survey · **What happens:** count, see, build · **To what, where:** wall sections, different dynasties, stone wall, photos, most, Ming

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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 (2012 Chinese survey), 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:14
# text = A 2012 Chinese survey counted all the wall sections from different dynasties at about 21,196 km; most of the stone wall seen in photos was built under the Ming.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	survey	survey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	21,196	21,196	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | a 2012 Chinese survey | all wall sections |  | different dynasties |  | 21,196 km *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent section=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | participle |  | the stone wall *not said here* |  | photos |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive |  | most of the stone wall |  | the Ming |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:052-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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