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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 (Mei, gunpowder, Marco), 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:5 # text = But Mei sometimes adds too much: gunpowder was not «only for fireworks», Marco Polo did not bring noodles to Italy, and some things, like the crossbow, were invented in more than one place. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 gunpowder gunpowder NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 fireworks firework NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 17 Marco Marco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 Polo Polo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 22 noodles noodle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 crossbow crossbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 33 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 39 advmod _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Mei | much | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | gunpowder | | | | | for fireworks | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **bring** | past · do-support | Marco | noodles | Italy | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noodle=Theme to italy=Destination | | 4 | **invent** | past · passive | | some things like the crossbow | | one place | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [China: the four great inventions, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/4/) - next →: [China: the four great inventions, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/)