--- title: The teacher checks: the World Bank numbers on poverty are real and e… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: The teacher checks: the World Bank numbers on poverty are real and enormous, the rover found signs of ancient water, not life, and per person China is still a middle-income country. Who acts: teacher, Bank numbers, rover, China. 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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 (teacher, Bank numbers, rover, China), 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:3 # text = The teacher checks: the World Bank numbers on poverty are real and enormous, the rover found signs of ancient water, not life, and per person China is still a middle-income country. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Bank Bank PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 rover rover NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 26 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 28 per per ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present | the teacher | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the Bank numbers on poverty | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the Bank numbers on poverty *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | past | the rover | signs of ancient water and life | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | China | a income country | | | still | per person | tree rules | | 6 | **sign** | | | ancient water and life | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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:3`. **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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