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title: After him, Deng Xiaoping opened China to markets, and a fishing town… — China: 1911, 1949 and Mao · tree and pragmatics
description: After him, Deng Xiaoping opened China to markets, and a fishing town, Shenzhen, grew into a giant city. Who acts: Deng, fishing town. 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 9

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After him, Deng Xiaoping opened China to markets, and a fishing town, Shenzhen, grew into a giant city.

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**Who acts:** Deng, fishing town · **What happens:** open, grow · **To what, where:** China, markets, giant city

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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 (Deng, fishing town), 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:9
# text = After him, Deng Xiaoping opened China to markets, and a fishing town, Shenzhen, grew into a giant city.
# 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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Deng	Deng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Xiaoping	Xiaoping	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Shenzhen	Shenzhen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Deng | China | markets |  | after Leap |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent china=Patient to market=Recipient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a fishing town |  |  |  |  | into a giant city *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into city=Result |

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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:9`.

**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): no change. **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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