---
title: Supporters say it restored order, critics say it cut freedoms; views… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics
description: Supporters say it restored order, critics say it cut freedoms; views are strongly divided. Who acts: Supporters, law, critics. A sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
---

<!-- md -->
[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/23/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 23

# China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 23

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Supporters say it restored order, critics say it cut freedoms; views are strongly divided.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Supporters, law, critics · **What happens:** say, restore, cut, divide · **To what, where:** order, freedoms, views · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Supporters, law, critics), 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:23
# text = Supporters say it restored order, critics say it cut freedoms; views are strongly divided.
# 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): no change
1	Supporters	supporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	freedoms	freedom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Supporters |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **restore** | past | law | order |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | critics |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cut** | past | law | freedoms |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material freedom=Product |
| 5 | **divide** | present · passive |  | views |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:23`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [China: modern China, space and contest…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/22/)
- next →: [China: Mei's exaggerations and everyda…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/0/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/59-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics/)