--- title: The Han dynasty, 206 BC–220 AD, was so important that the majority p… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Han dynasty, 206 BC–220 AD, was so important that the majority people of China call themselves Han, and Chinese characters are «Han characters»; China also has 55 officially recognised minorities. Who acts: Han dynasty, majority people, Chinese characters, China. 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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 (Han dynasty, majority people, Chinese characters, China), 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:17 # text = The Han dynasty, 206 BC–220 AD, was so important that the majority people of China call themselves Han, and Chinese characters are «Han characters»; China also has 55 officially recognised minorities. # 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 Han Han PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 dynasty dynasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 206 206 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ 6 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 7 – – X GW ExtPos=PROPN 5 appos _ _ 8 220 220 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 goeswith _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 majority majority NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 21 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 Han Han PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Han Han PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 also also ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 36 55 55 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 37 officially officially ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 recognised recognise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 minorities minority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 Han dynasty | | | | | important *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the majority people of China | people | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Chinese characters | Han characters | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | China | 55 recognised minorities | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minority=Patient | | 5 | **recognise** | participle | | | | | | officially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:17`. **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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