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title: The number is unknown and disputed, the government says it restored… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics
description: The number is unknown and disputed, the government says it restored order, and the event is not openly discussed in mainland China. Who acts: number, government, army. A sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 21

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The number is unknown and disputed, the government says it restored order, and the event is not openly discussed in mainland China.

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**Who acts:** number, government, army · **What happens:** be, dispute, say, restore, not discuss · **To what, where:** order, event, mainland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (number, government, 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:21
# text = The number is unknown and disputed, the government says it restored order, and the event is not openly discussed in mainland China.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:appos
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the number |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dispute** | participle | the number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the government |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **restore** | past | army | order |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **discuss** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the event |  | mainland |  | China *obl*; openly *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:21`.

**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, 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/).

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