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title: Genghis Khan's Mongols began attacking northern China in 1211, and h… — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: Genghis Khan's Mongols began attacking northern China in 1211, and his grandson Kublai Khan completed the conquest of the Song in 1279 and founded the Yuan dynasty. Who acts: Mongols, grandson. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» of the history course of Mova's primary school 
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# China: the Song and the Mongols, sentence 10

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Genghis Khan's Mongols began attacking northern China in 1211, and his grandson Kublai Khan completed the conquest of the Song in 1279 and founded the Yuan dynasty.

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**Who acts:** Mongols, grandson · **What happens:** begin, attack, complete, found · **To what, where:** 1211, northern China, conquest, 1279, Yuan dynasty

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Song and the Mongols» 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 (Mongols, grandson), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:10
# text = Genghis Khan's Mongols began attacking northern China in 1211, and his grandson Kublai Khan completed the conquest of the Song in 1279 and founded the Yuan dynasty.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Genghis	Genghis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	attacking	attack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1211	1211	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:appos
15	Kublai	Kublai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Khan	Khan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	completed	complete	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1279	1279	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Yuan	Yuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **begin** | past | Genghis's Mongols |  |  | 1211 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **attack** | gerund | Genghis's Mongols *not said here* | northern China |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Patient |
| 3 | **complete** | past | China's grandson | the conquest of the Song |  | 1279 |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Eventuality |
| 4 | **found** | past | China's grandson *not said here* | the Yuan dynasty |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dynasty=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:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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