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title: The true story already has a giraffe from Africa that the emperor's… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics
description: The true story already has a giraffe from Africa that the emperor's court mistook for a lucky magical beast. Who acts: true story, court. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 6

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The true story already has a giraffe from Africa that the emperor's court mistook for a lucky magical beast.

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**Who acts:** true story, court · **What happens:** have, mistake · **To what, where:** giraffe, Africa

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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 (true story, court), 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:6
# text = The true story already has a giraffe from Africa that the emperor's court mistook for a lucky magical beast.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	mistook	mistake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the true story | a giraffe |  | Africa |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Patient |
| 2 | **mistake** | past | the emperor's court | a giraffe |  |  |  | for a lucky magical beast | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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