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title: Think of a school swap shop: you bring stickers and go home with a b… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a school swap shop: you bring stickers and go home with a ball. Who acts: you. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 3

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Think of a school swap shop: you bring stickers and go home with a ball.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** think, bring, go · **To what, where:** stickers

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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 (you), 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:3
# text = Think of a school swap shop: you bring stickers and go home with a ball.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	stickers	sticker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
12	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a swap shop | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | you | stickers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sticker=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a ball; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ball=Beneficiary |

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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:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/).

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