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title: The legend says the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms because only Heav… — China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages · tree and pragmatics
description: The legend says the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven can have 10,000; surveys count about 8,700. Who acts: legend, Forbidden City, Heaven, surveys. 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 t
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# China: the Ming and Zheng He's voyages, sentence 9

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The legend says the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven can have 10,000; surveys count about 8,700.

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**Who acts:** legend, Forbidden City, Heaven, surveys · **What happens:** say, have, count · **To what, where:** 9,999 rooms, 10,000, 8,700 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (legend, Forbidden City, 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:9
# text = The legend says the Forbidden City has 9,999 rooms because only Heaven can have 10,000; 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Forbidden	Forbidden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	9,999	9,999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
12	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	10,000	10,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	surveys	survey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	8,700	8,700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the legend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Forbidden City | 9,999 rooms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | can | 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 |

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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:9`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

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