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title: China's economy grew very fast from about 1980 to the 2010s; counted… — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics
description: China's economy grew very fast from about 1980 to the 2010s; counted in US dollars it is now the world's second biggest, after the USA; but shared out among about 1.4 billion people it is much less per person than in rich countries, so China is still a middle-income country, and growth has slowed in
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# China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 9

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China's economy grew very fast from about 1980 to the 2010s; counted in US dollars it is now the world's second biggest, after the USA; but shared out among about 1.4 billion people it is much less per person than in rich countries, so China is still a middle-income country, and growth has slowed in recent years.

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**Who acts:** economy, China, growth · **What happens:** grow, count, be, share out, slowed · **To what, where:** US dollars, billion people, income country

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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 (economy, China, growth), 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:9
# text = China's economy grew very fast from about 1980 to the 2010s; counted in US dollars it is now the world's second biggest, after the USA; but shared out among about 1.4 billion people it is much less per person than in rich countries, so China is still a middle-income country, and growth has slowed in recent years.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	2010s	2010	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
25	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	about	about	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	1.4	1.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	37	compound	_	_
37	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	much	much	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	per	per	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	than	than	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
51	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
53	still	still	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
55	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	_
57	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=62:punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
62	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	slowed	slowed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	58	conj	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	_
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | China's economy |  |  |  |  | from 1980 to the 2010s; fast *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from 1980=Patient |
| 2 | **count** | participle | China's economy *not said here* |  |  | US dollars |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | economy |  |  |  | after the USA; now | big, second *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **share out** | past | China's economy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among billion people | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | economy | billion people *not said here* |  |  |  | per person; than rich countries; less *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | China | a income country |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **slowed** | present · perfect | growth |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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