--- title: The Shaolin Temple in Henan province, about 1,500 years old, is famo… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: The Shaolin Temple in Henan province, about 1,500 years old, is famous for kung fu; monks give demonstrations with hard training and some showmanship, but nobody flies, that is film magic. Who acts: Shaolin Temple, monks, nobody, that. 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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 (Shaolin Temple, monks, nobody, that), 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:18 # text = The Shaolin Temple in Henan province, about 1,500 years old, is famous for kung fu; monks give demonstrations with hard training and some showmanship, but nobody flies, that is film magic. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Shaolin Shaolin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Temple Temple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Henan Henan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 province province NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 1,500 1,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 kung kung NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 fu fu NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 21 demonstrations demonstration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 showmanship showmanship NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 nsubj _ _ 31 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Shaolin Temple in Henan province | | | | | for kung fu; famous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | monks | demonstrations | | | | with hard training and some showmanship | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demonstration=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | film magic | | | | | tree rules | 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:18`. **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): 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. 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