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title: Open your pencil case: paper in your notebook, printed words on the… — China: the four great inventions · tree and pragmatics
description: Open your pencil case: paper in your notebook, printed words on the cover, maybe a compass on your ruler. Who acts: you. 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.
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# China: the four great inventions, sentence 2

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Open your pencil case: paper in your notebook, printed words on the cover, maybe a compass on your ruler.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** open, print · **To what, where:** pencil case

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = Open your pencil case: paper in your notebook, printed words on the cover, maybe a compass on your ruler.
# 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
1	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	notebook	notebook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | your pencil case and paper in your notebook and printed words on the cover and a compass on your ruler |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=Theme |
| 2 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:2`.

**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. **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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