--- title: Like a referee who first tells the facts everyone saw, then says wha… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics description: Like a referee who first tells the facts everyone saw, then says what each side claims, he names each topic as contested and lets families talk at home. Who acts: referee, everyone, side, families. 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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 (referee, everyone, side, families), 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:6 # text = Like a referee who first tells the facts everyone saw, then says what each side claims, he names each topic as contested and lets families talk at home. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 advmod _ _ 6 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 claims claim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 topic topic NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 contested contest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a referee | the facts | | | | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fact=Recipient | | 2 | **see** | past | everyone | the facts *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | then | like a referee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | each side | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 5 | **name** | present | side | each topic | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topic=Theme | | 6 | **contest** | participle | side *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **let** | present | side *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **talk** | infinitive | families | | | home | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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, R6-punct-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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