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title: Pride and truth can live together, and the best history is the one t… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics
description: Pride and truth can live together, and the best history is the one that survives the check. Who acts: Pride, best history, one. A sentence of the lesson «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 10

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Pride and truth can live together, and the best history is the one that survives the check.

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**Who acts:** Pride, best history, one · **What happens:** live together, be, survive · **To what, where:** one, check

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» 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 (Pride, best history, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:10
# text = Pride and truth can live together, and the best history is the one that survives the check.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.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	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live together** | can | Pride and truth |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the best history | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **survive** | present | the one | the check |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme check=Circumstance |

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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:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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