--- title: The Wall is many walls from many dynasties, and even China's astrona… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Wall is many walls from many dynasties, and even China's astronaut Yang Liwei said he could not see it from orbit. Who acts: Wall, astronaut. 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 with its depend --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 7 The Wall is many walls from many dynasties, and even China's astronaut Yang Liwei said he could not see it from orbit. **Who acts:** Wall, astronaut · **What happens:** be, say, not see · **To what, where:** many walls, many dynasties, Wall, orbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Wall, astronaut), 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:7 # text = The Wall is many walls from many dynasties, and even China's astronaut Yang Liwei said he could not see it 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dynasties dynasty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 astronaut astronaut NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 Yang Yang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 16 Liwei Liwei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 orbit orbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **is a** | present | the Wall | many walls | | many dynasties | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | China's astronaut | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **see** | could | astronaut | Wall | | orbit | | | 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:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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