--- title: Tibet came under the control of the People's Republic in 1950–1951;… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: Tibet came under the control of the People's Republic in 1950–1951; the Chinese government says Tibet has been part of China for centuries, while the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans abroad describe it as historically independent or self-governing. Who acts: Tibet, Chinese government, Dalai Lama. 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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 (Tibet, Chinese government, Dalai Lama), 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:18 # text = Tibet came under the control of the People's Republic in 1950–1951; the Chinese government says Tibet has been part of China for centuries, while the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans abroad describe it as historically independent or self-governing. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Tibet Tibet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 under under ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 People People PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 13 – - PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 1951 1951 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 Tibet Tibet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 cop _ _ 23 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Dalai Dalai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Lama Lama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Tibetans tibetan PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 36 abroad abroad ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod 37 describe describe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 40 historically historically ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:ccomp 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 45 governing govern VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Tibet | | | the control of the People's Republic | | in 1950 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under control=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Chinese government | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present · perfect | Tibet | part | | | century | of China | tree rules | | 4 | **describe** | present | the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans | part | | | | as independent | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as independent=Attribute | | 5 | **govern** | gerund | the Dalai Lama and many Tibetans *not said here* | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:18`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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. 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