--- title: In spring 1989 students and workers protested in Beijing's Tiananmen… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: In spring 1989 students and workers protested in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; on 3–4 June the army cleared the area and many people were killed. Who acts: students, 4 June army. A sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [China: modern China, space and contest…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/) / 20 # China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 20 In spring 1989 students and workers protested in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; on 3–4 June the army cleared the area and many people were killed. **Who acts:** students, 4 June army · **What happens:** protest, clear, kill · **To what, where:** Tiananmen Square, area, many people This is a sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» 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 (students, 4 June army), 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:20 # text = In spring 1989 students and workers protested in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; on 3–4 June the army cleared the area and many people were killed. # 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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 3 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 4 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 protested protest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 Tiananmen Tiananmen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Square Square PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 16 – - PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 cleared clear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | students and workers | | | Beijing's Tiananmen Square | spring | on 3 | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **clear** | past | the 4 June army | the area | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent area=Source | | 3 | **kill** | past · passive | | many people | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:20`. **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 ×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. 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