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title: In 1949 Mao Zedong won the civil war and declared the People's Repub… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1949 Mao Zedong won the civil war and declared the People's Republic; the Nationalists went to Taiwan. Who acts: Mao, Nationalists. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 5

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In 1949 Mao Zedong won the civil war and declared the People's Republic; the Nationalists went to Taiwan.

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**Who acts:** Mao, Nationalists · **What happens:** win, declare, go · **To what, where:** civil war, 1949, Republic, Taiwan

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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 (Mao, 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:5
# text = In 1949 Mao Zedong won the civil war and declared the People's Republic; the Nationalists went to Taiwan.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1949	1949	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Mao	Mao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Zedong	Zedong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Nationalists	nationalist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **win** | past | Mao | the civil war |  | 1949 |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Mao *not said here* | the People's Republic |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Attribute |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Nationalists |  |  | Taiwan |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to taiwan=Initial\_Location |

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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: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): 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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