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title: Some topics make people shout: Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen in 1989 and… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics
description: Some topics make people shout: Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen in 1989 and Hong Kong in 2019–2020. Who acts: topics, people. 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 every clause.
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# China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 4

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Some topics make people shout: Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen in 1989 and Hong Kong in 2019–2020.

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**Who acts:** topics, people · **What happens:** make, shout · **To what, where:** Taiwan, 2019

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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 (topics, people), 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:4
# text = Some topics make people shout: Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen in 1989 and Hong Kong in 2019–2020.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	topics	topic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Tiananmen	Tiananmen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Hong	Hong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	Kong	Kong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
19	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	18	punct	_	_
20	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | some topics | Taiwan and Tibet and Tiananmen in 1989 and Hong |  | 2019 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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