--- title: The Ming rebuilt and greatly extended walls in brick and stone, incl… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics description: The Ming rebuilt and greatly extended walls in brick and stone, including the famous sections at Badaling and Mutianyu, mostly in the 15th and 16th centuries. Who acts: Ming. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/) / 15 # China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 15 The Ming rebuilt and greatly extended walls in brick and stone, including the famous sections at Badaling and Mutianyu, mostly in the 15th and 16th centuries. **Who acts:** Ming · **What happens:** rebuild · **To what, where:** brick This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ming), 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:15 # text = The Ming rebuilt and greatly extended walls in brick and stone, including the famous sections at Badaling and Mutianyu, mostly in the 15th and 16th centuries. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rebuilt rebuild VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 6 extended extended ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 7 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 including include ADP VBG _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sections section NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Badaling Badaling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Mutianyu Mutianyu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 15th 15th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 16th 16th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 28 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **rebuild** | past | the Ming | | | brick and stone | century | | vn create-26.4 «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:056-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/14/) - next →: [China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/56-china-the-ming-and-zheng-he-s-voyages/)