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title: In 1971 an American table-tennis team visited China, «ping-pong dipl… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1971 an American table-tennis team visited China, «ping-pong diplomacy»; in 1972 President Richard Nixon visited Beijing. Who acts: American tennis team, Richard. A sentence of the lesson «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 25

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In 1971 an American table-tennis team visited China, «ping-pong diplomacy»; in 1972 President Richard Nixon visited Beijing.

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**Who acts:** American tennis team, Richard · **What happens:** visit · **To what, where:** China, 1971, Beijing, 1972

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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 (American tennis team, Richard), 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:25
# text = In 1971 an American table-tennis team visited China, «ping-pong diplomacy»; in 1972 President Richard Nixon visited Beijing.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	tennis	tennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	ping	ping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
15	pong	pong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	diplomacy	diplomacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1972	1972	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
21	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	Nixon	Nixon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
25	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **visit** | past | a American tennis team | China |  | 1971 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | past | Richard  President | Beijing |  | 1972 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beijing=Co-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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:25`.

**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, R8-pos-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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