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title: Go (weiqi) and xiangqi (Chinese chess) are old Chinese games, Go ove… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics
description: Go (weiqi) and xiangqi (Chinese chess) are old Chinese games, Go over 2,500 years old; modern chess grew from the Indian game chaturanga. Who acts: Go, modern chess. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 19

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Go (weiqi) and xiangqi (Chinese chess) are old Chinese games, Go over 2,500 years old; modern chess grew from the Indian game chaturanga.

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**Who acts:** Go, modern chess · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** old Chinese games

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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 (Go, modern chess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:19
# text = Go (weiqi) and xiangqi (Chinese chess) are old Chinese games, Go over 2,500 years old; modern chess grew from the Indian game chaturanga.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.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
1	Go	Go	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	weiqi	weiqi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	appos	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	xiangqi	xiangqi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Go	Go	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	2,500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	chaturanga	chaturanga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **is a** | present | Go | old Chinese games |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | modern chess |  |  |  |  | from the Indian game chaturanga | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from chaturanga=Patient |

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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:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:19`.

**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. **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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