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title: Under the Tang dynasty, from 618 to 907, the capital Chang'an was on… — China: the Silk Road and the Tang · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the Tang dynasty, from 618 to 907, the capital Chang'an was one of the greatest cities on Earth, full of traders, poets and travellers. Who acts: capital. 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 th
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# China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 5

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Under the Tang dynasty, from 618 to 907, the capital Chang'an was one of the greatest cities on Earth, full of traders, poets and travellers.

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**Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one, Tang dynasty

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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 (capital), 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:5
# text = Under the Tang dynasty, from 618 to 907, the capital Chang'an was one of the greatest cities on Earth, full of traders, poets and travellers.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Tang	Tang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	618	618	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	907	907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	Chang'an	Chang'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | past | the capital | one |  | the Tang dynasty |  | of the greatest cities on Earth | tree rules |

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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: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): 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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