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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 (you, shop, town, friends), 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:5 # text = Imagine a shop that sells something harmful, and when the town throws it away, the shop's friends arrive with cannons and make the town pay. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sells sell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 harmful harmful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 cannons cannon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | a shop | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shop=Theme | | 2 | **sell** | present | a shop | something | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 3 | **throw away** | present | the town | shop | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **arrive** | present | the shop's friends | | | | | with cannons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | the shop's friends *not said here* | the town | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pay** | infinitive | the town *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:5`. **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. **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 Qing and the Opium Wars, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/4/) - next →: [China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/)