--- title: China also gave the world porcelain, tea, kites and an early earthqu… — China: the four great inventions · tree and pragmatics description: China also gave the world porcelain, tea, kites and an early earthquake detector with bronze dragons; a good historian enjoys the true list and checks the extra claims. Who acts: China, good historian. A sentence of the lesson «China: the four great inventions» of the history course of Mova's primar --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # China: the four great inventions, sentence 6 China also gave the world porcelain, tea, kites and an early earthquake detector with bronze dragons; a good historian enjoys the true list and checks the extra claims. **Who acts:** China, good historian · **What happens:** give, enjoy, check · **To what, where:** world porcelain, true list, extra claims 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 (China, good historian), 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:6 # text = China also gave the world porcelain, tea, kites and an early earthquake detector with bronze dragons; a good historian enjoys the true list and checks the extra claims. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 porcelain porcelain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 detector detector NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 bronze bronze NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 historian historian NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 enjoys enjoy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | China | the world porcelain and tea and kites and a early earthquake detector with bronze dragons | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porcelain=Theme | | 2 | **enjoy** | present | a good historian | the true list | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus | | 3 | **check** | present | a good historian *not said here* | the extra claims | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=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:6`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [China: the four great inventions, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/5/) - next →: [China: the four great inventions, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/)