--- title: China's high-speed rail network, over 40,000 km long, is larger than… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: China's high-speed rail network, over 40,000 km long, is larger than the rest of the world's high-speed lines combined, by most reports. Who acts: speed rail network. 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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 (speed rail network), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:11 # text = China's high-speed rail network, over 40,000 km long, is larger than the rest of the world's high-speed lines combined, by most reports. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.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 ×3 1 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 rail rail NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 network network NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 40,000 40000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 27 combined combine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | China's speed rail network | | | | | than the rest of the world's speed lines; large *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **combine** | participle | | the world's speed lines *not said here* | | | | by most reports | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:11`. **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 ×3. **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: modern China, space and contest…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/10/) - next →: [China: modern China, space and contest…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/)