--- title: Mei also says the Mongols never lost a battle; ask Japan, where stor… — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: Mei also says the Mongols never lost a battle; ask Japan, where storms helped wreck two Mongol fleets, or Egypt, where the Mongols lost at Ain Jalut. Who acts: Mei, Mongols, storms. 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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, Mongols, storms), 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:5 # text = Mei also says the Mongols never lost a battle; ask Japan, where storms helped wreck two Mongol fleets, or Egypt, where the Mongols lost at Ain Jalut. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Mei mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Mongols Mongol PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 11 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 15 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 17 wreck wreck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 Mongol mongol ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 fleets fleet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Mongols Mongol PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 28 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Ain Ain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 Jalut Jalut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **not** **lose** | past | the Mongols | a battle | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Mei *not said here* | | Japan or Egypt | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent japan=Recipient | | 4 | **help** | past | storms | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **wreck** | infinitive | storms *not said here* | two Mongol fleets | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient | | 6 | **lose** | past | the Mongols | | | Ain | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at ain=Eventuality | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [China: the Song and the Mongols, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/4/) - next →: [China: the Song and the Mongols, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/)