--- title: Mongolia is an independent country that declared independence in 191… — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: Mongolia is an independent country that declared independence in 1911 and was recognised by China in 1946; Inner Mongolia is a region of China. Who acts: Mongolia, independent country, China, Inner Mongolia. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongolia, independent country, China, Inner Mongolia), 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:17 # text = Mongolia is an independent country that declared independence in 1911 and was recognised by China in 1946; Inner Mongolia is a region of China. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mongolia Mongolia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1911 1911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 recognised recognise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl:agent _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1946 1946 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 Inner inner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 20 Mongolia Mongolia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Mongolia | a independent country | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | a independent country | independence | | 1911 | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | | 3 | **recognise** | past · passive | China | | | 1946 | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | Inner Mongolia | a region | | | | of China | tree rules | 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:055-china-the-song-and-the-mongols.lesson:17`. **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 Song and the Mongols, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/15/) - next →: [China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/)