--- title: Qin Shi Huang united China in 221 BC and standardised writing, coins… — China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army an… · tree and pragmatics description: Qin Shi Huang united China in 221 BC and standardised writing, coins, weights and the width of cart axles, and built roads. Who acts: Qin. 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 dependency tr --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 9 Qin Shi Huang united China in 221 BC and standardised writing, coins, weights and the width of cart axles, and built roads. **Who acts:** Qin · **What happens:** unite, standardise, build · **To what, where:** China, 221, writing, roads 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 (Qin), 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:9 # text = Qin Shi Huang united China in 221 BC and standardised writing, coins, weights and the width of cart axles, and built roads. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2 1 Qin Qin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Shi Shi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Huang Huang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 united unite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 221 221 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 8 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 standardised standardise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 weights weight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 axles axle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **unite** | past | Qin | China | | 221 BC | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Patient | | 2 | **standardise** | past | Qin *not said here* | writing and coins and weights and the width of cart axles | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **build** | past | Qin *not said here* | roads | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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