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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, dynasty, Heaven, surveys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.lesson:1 # text = Mei says it has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven may have 10,000: a lovely legend, but surveys count about 8,700. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.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 ×1 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 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 9,999 9,999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 9 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 12 10,000 10,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 surveys survey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 8,700 8,700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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 | **have** | present | dynasty | 9,999 rooms | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | | 3 | **have** | may | Heaven | 10,000 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 10,000=Patient | | 4 | **count** | present | surveys | 8,700 | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 8,700=Theme | 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:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.lesson:1`. **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 ×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 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/) - next →: [China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/)