--- title: In 1974 farmers digging a well near Xi'an hit clay: they had found t… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1974 farmers digging a well near Xi'an hit clay: they had found the Terracotta Army, thousands of life-size soldiers guarding his tomb, each face different. Who acts: farmers, size soldiers. A sentence of the lesson «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» of the history --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [China: the First Emperor, the Terracot…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall/) / 3 # China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 3 In 1974 farmers digging a well near Xi'an hit clay: they had found the Terracotta Army, thousands of life-size soldiers guarding his tomb, each face different. **Who acts:** farmers, size soldiers · **What happens:** dig, hit, find, guard · **To what, where:** well, Xi'an, clay, 1974, Terracotta Army, tomb 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 (farmers, size soldiers), 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:3 # text = In 1974 farmers digging a well near Xi'an hit clay: they had found the Terracotta Army, thousands of life-size soldiers guarding his tomb, each face different. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1974 1974 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 3 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 digging dig VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Xi'an Xi'an PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Terracotta Terracotta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Army Army PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 25 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 acl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tomb tomb NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | gerund | farmers *not said here* | a well | | Xi'an | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent well=Theme near xi'an=Location | | 2 | **hit** | past | farmers | clay | | 1974 | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clay=Theme in 1974=Destination | | 3 | **find** | past · perfect | farmers *= farmer* | the Terracotta Army | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Topic | | 4 | **guard** | gerund | size soldiers *not said here* | Qin's tomb and each face | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Beneficiary | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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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