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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 (people), 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:13 # text = In 1414 a giraffe from Malindi, in today's Kenya, was brought to the Ming court, where people took it for a qilin, a lucky mythical beast, and painted it. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1414 1414 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Malindi Malindi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 qilin qilin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 mythical mythical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **bring** | past · passive | | a giraffe from Malindi in today's Kenya | | 1414 | | to the Ming court | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination | | 2 | **take** | past | people | giraffe | | | | for a qilin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for qilin=Beneficiary | | 3 | **paint** | past | people *not said here* | giraffe | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | 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:13`. **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. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/12/) - next →: [China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/)