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title: Chinese printers often kept using carved woodblocks, because Chinese… — China: the four great inventions · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese printers often kept using carved woodblocks, because Chinese needs thousands of different characters. Who acts: Chinese printers, Chinese. 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
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# China: the four great inventions, sentence 10

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Chinese printers often kept using carved woodblocks, because Chinese needs thousands of different characters.

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**Who acts:** Chinese printers, Chinese · **What happens:** keep, use, carve, need · **To what, where:** Chinese printers, carved woodblocks, thousands

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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 (Chinese printers, Chinese), 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:10
# text = Chinese printers often kept using carved woodblocks, because Chinese needs thousands of different characters.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	printers	printer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
5	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	woodblocks	woodblock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · passive |  | Chinese printers |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | Chinese printers *not said here* | carved woodblocks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodblock=Patient |
| 3 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **need** | present | Chinese | thousands of different characters |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thousand=Theme |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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