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title: The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, ruled from 1644 to 1912. — China: the Qing and the Opium Wars · tree and pragmatics
description: The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, ruled from 1644 to 1912. Who acts: last imperial dynasty. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 0

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The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, ruled from 1644 to 1912.

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**Who acts:** last imperial dynasty · **What happens:** rule · **To what, where:** 1644

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» 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 (last imperial dynasty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:0
# text = The last imperial dynasty, the Qing, ruled from 1644 to 1912.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Qing	Qing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1644	1644	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **rule** | past | the last imperial dynasty |  |  | 1644 |  | to 1912 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:0`.

**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): 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.

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