--- title: Mei says «China absorbed the Mongols», the teacher says «the Mongols… — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: Mei says «China absorbed the Mongols», the teacher says «the Mongols ruled China»: the Yuan was a Mongol dynasty ruling through a Chinese-style state. Who acts: Mei, China, teacher, Mongols. 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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 (Mei, China, teacher, Mongols), 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:4 # text = Mei says «China absorbed the Mongols», the teacher says «the Mongols ruled China»: the Yuan was a Mongol dynasty ruling through a Chinese-style state. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 absorbed absorb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Mongols Mongol PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Mongols Mongol PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 17 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Yuan Yuan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Mongol mongol ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod 25 dynasty dynasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 26 ruling rule VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mei | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **absorb** *in a quote* | past | China | the Mongols | | | | | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal mongol=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **rule** *in a quote* | past | the Mongols | China | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent china=Result | | 5 | **is a** | past | the Yuan | a Mongol dynasty | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rule** | gerund | a Mongol dynasty *not said here* | | | a style state | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/3/) - next →: [China: the Song and the Mongols, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/)