--- title: This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were first develop… — China: the four great inventions · tree and pragmatics description: This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were first developed in China and spread west over centuries. Who acts: teacher. A sentence of the lesson «China: the four great inventions» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/1/) [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 four great inventions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/) / 1 # China: the four great inventions, sentence 1 This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were first developed in China and spread west over centuries. **Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** agree, develop, spread · **To what, where:** four, China This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the four great inventions» 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 (teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:053-china-the-four-great-inventions.lesson:1 # text = This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were first developed in China and spread west over centuries. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 053-china-the-four-great-inventions.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 completely completely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 12 developed develop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 17 west west ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 18 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the teacher | | | | time | completely *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **develop** | past · passive | | all four | | China | | first *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **spread** | participle | | | | | century | west *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:053-china-the-four-great-inventions.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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