--- title: Porcelain was perfected in China, especially at Jingdezhen; the word… — China: the four great inventions · tree and pragmatics description: Porcelain was perfected in China, especially at Jingdezhen; the word «china» for porcelain comes from the country's name, which probably comes from the Qin. Who acts: word, name, country. 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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 (word, name, country), 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:13 # text = Porcelain was perfected in China, especially at Jingdezhen; the word «china» for porcelain comes from the country's name, which probably comes from the Qin. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Porcelain porcelain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 perfected perfect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 especially especially ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Jingdezhen Jingdezhen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 china china NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 porcelain porcelain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 18 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 probably probably ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Qin Qin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **perfect** | past · passive | | Porcelain | | China | | at Jingdezhen | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **come** | present | the word | | | the country's name | | for porcelain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from name=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **come** | present | the country's name | | | the Qin | | probably *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from qin=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **name** | | the country | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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