--- title: Mao's Great Leap Forward caused a terrible famine, and his Cultural… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics description: Mao's Great Leap Forward caused a terrible famine, and his Cultural Revolution closed schools and hurt millions. Who acts: Great Leap, Cultural Revolution, Mao. 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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 (Great Leap, Cultural Revolution, Mao), 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:8 # text = Mao's Great Leap Forward caused a terrible famine, and his Cultural Revolution closed schools and hurt millions. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mao Mao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Forward forward PROPN NNP _ 6 flat _ _ 6 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 Cultural cultural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Revolution Revolution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | past | Mao's Great Leap | a terrible famine | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition famine=Patient | | 2 | **close** | past | Leap's Cultural Revolution | schools | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Patient | | 3 | **hurt** | past | Leap's Cultural Revolution *not said here* | millions | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer million=Patient | | 4 | **leap** | | Mao | | | | | | nom leap «act transitive»: poss=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:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/7/) - next →: [China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/)