--- title: People in Tang China kept ice and made frozen milk desserts; Persian… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: People in Tang China kept ice and made frozen milk desserts; Persians and Arabs also made frozen sweets, so ice cream has several early homes and no clear first. Who acts: People, Persians, ice cream. 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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 (People, Persians, ice cream), 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:13 # text = People in Tang China kept ice and made frozen milk desserts; Persians and Arabs also made frozen sweets, so ice cream has several early homes and no clear first. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Tang Tang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 desserts dessert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Persians Persian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Arabs Arab PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 frozen frozen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 30 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 31 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | People in Tang China | ice | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | People in Tang China *not said here* | frozen milk desserts | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dessert=Product | | 3 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | Persians and Arabs | frozen sweets | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Product | | 5 | **have** | present | ice cream | several early homes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | 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:13`. **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, R8-pos-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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