--- title: The history teacher smiles, because every country tells its story wi… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: The history teacher smiles, because every country tells its story with pride, and history class is where the proud stories get checked, kindly. Who acts: history teacher, country, history class. 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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 (history teacher, country, history class), 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:2 # text = The history teacher smiles, because every country tells its story with pride, and history class is where the proud stories get checked, kindly. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 smiles smile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl:relcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | present | the history teacher | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | every country | country's story | | | | with pride | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | history class | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | present · passive | | the proud stories | | | | kindly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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