--- title: Both the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics description: Both the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists fought Japan, sometimes while also fighting each other; the Nationalists fought most of the big battles. Who acts: Nationalist government, Nationalists. A sentence of the lesson «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» of the history course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/) / 17 # China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 17 Both the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists fought Japan, sometimes while also fighting each other; the Nationalists fought most of the big battles. **Who acts:** Nationalist government, Nationalists · **What happens:** fight · **To what, where:** Japan, each, most This is a sentence of the lesson «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» 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 (Nationalist government, Nationalists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:17 # text = Both the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists fought Japan, sometimes while also fighting each other; the Nationalists fought most of the big battles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 4 cc:preconj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Nationalist nationalist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Chiang Chiang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 shek shek NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Communists Communist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNPS:Number=Plur 13 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 20 each each PRON DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 19 obj _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 fixed _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Nationalists nationalist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 25 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 battles battle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | past | the Nationalist government of Chiang and the Communists | Japan | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent japan=Co-Agent | | 2 | **fight** | gerund | the Nationalists *not said here* | each | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | | 3 | **fight** | past | the Nationalists | most of the big battles | | | | sometimes *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Co-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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/16/) - next →: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/)