--- title: After the Qin came the Han, a dynasty so important that most Chinese… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: After the Qin came the Han, a dynasty so important that most Chinese people still call themselves Han; they chose officials by exams, sent the traveller Zhang Qian west, and improved paper. Who acts: Han, most Chinese people, people. 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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, most Chinese people, people), 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:8 # text = After the Qin came the Han, a dynasty so important that most Chinese people still call themselves Han; they chose officials by exams, sent the traveller Zhang Qian west, and improved paper. # 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 ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Qin Qin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Han Han PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dynasty dynasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 14 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 18 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 Han Han PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 chose chose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 exams exam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 Zhang Zhang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 31 Qian Qian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 west west ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 improved improve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the Han | | | | after the Qin | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present | most Chinese people | people | | | still | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | | 3 | **chose** | present | people | officials | | | | by exams | tree rules | | 4 | **send** | past | people *not said here* | the traveller | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme | | 5 | **improve** | past | people *not said here* | paper | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paper=Patient | 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:8`. **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 ×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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