--- title: Mei says only the Communists fought Japan; the teacher says both the… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics description: Mei says only the Communists fought Japan; the teacher says both the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists did, and the Nationalists fought most of the big battles. Who acts: Mei, Communists, teacher, Nationalists. 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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 (Mei, Communists, teacher, 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:4 # text = Mei says only the Communists fought Japan; the teacher says both the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists did, and 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mei mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Communists Communist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 both both CCONJ CC _ 14 cc:preconj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Nationalists nationalist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Chiang Chiang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 shek shek NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Communists Communist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Nationalists nationalist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 28 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 battles battle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mei | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fight** | past | the Communists | Japan | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent japan=Co-Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fight** | past | the Nationalists | most of the big battles | | | | | 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:4`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/3/) - next →: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/)