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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 (FIFA, modern football), 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:12 # text = FIFA recognises cuju, a kicking-ball game from ancient China, as the earliest known form of football; the rules of modern football were written in England in 1863. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 FIFA FIFA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 recognises recognise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 cuju cuju PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 kicking kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 17 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 1863 1863 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **recognise** | present | FIFA | cuju | | | | as the earliest known form of football | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cuju=Stimulus as form=Attribute | | 2 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **write** | past · passive | | the rules of modern football | | England | | in 1863 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in england=Destination | | 4 | **form** | | | football | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **rule** | | modern football | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, 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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