--- title: Rare Ming blue-and-white porcelain can sell for millions at auction,… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics description: Rare Ming blue-and-white porcelain can sell for millions at auction, but much Ming porcelain was exported in huge numbers and ordinary pieces are not so valuable. Who acts: Rare Ming blue porcelain, ordinary pieces. 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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 (Rare Ming blue porcelain, ordinary pieces), 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:17 # text = Rare Ming blue-and-white porcelain can sell for millions at auction, but much Ming porcelain was exported in huge numbers and ordinary pieces are not so valuable. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 2 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 3 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 8 porcelain porcelain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 auction auction NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 17 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 porcelain porcelain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 exported export VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 26 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **sell** | can | Rare Ming blue porcelain | | | auction | | for millions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for million=Asset | | 2 | **export** | past · passive | | much Ming porcelain | | huge numbers | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | ordinary pieces | | | | | valuable *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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