--- title: Traditional Chinese medicine is very old; Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nob… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: Traditional Chinese medicine is very old; Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for artemisinin, a malaria drug from sweet wormwood, a plant named in old texts, but many traditional remedies are not proven by tests and some use endangered animals. Who acts: Traditional Chinese medicine, Tu, tests, some --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [China: Mei's exaggerations and everyda…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/) / 21 # China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 21 Traditional Chinese medicine is very old; Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for artemisinin, a malaria drug from sweet wormwood, a plant named in old texts, but many traditional remedies are not proven by tests and some use endangered animals. **Who acts:** Traditional Chinese medicine, Tu, tests, some · **What happens:** be, win, name, not prove, use · **To what, where:** 2015 Nobel Prize, plant, old texts, many traditional remedies, endangered animals 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 (Traditional Chinese medicine, Tu, tests, some), 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:21 # text = Traditional Chinese medicine is very old; Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for artemisinin, a malaria drug from sweet wormwood, a plant named in old texts, but many traditional remedies are not proven by tests and some use endangered animals. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Traditional traditional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Tu Tu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Youyou Youyou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 2015 2015 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 13 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Prize Prize PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 artemisinin artemisinin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 malaria malaria NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 drug drug NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 wormwood wormwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 27 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 traditional traditional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 remedies remedy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 proven prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 43 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 43 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 44 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | Traditional Chinese medicine | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **win** | past | Tu | the 2015 Nobel Prize | | | | for artemisinin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for artemisinin=Beneficiary | | 3 | **name** | participle | | a plant *not said here* | | old texts | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **prove** | present · passive | tests | many traditional remedies | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present | some | endangered animals | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:21`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [China: Mei's exaggerations and everyda…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/20/) - next →: [China: Mei's exaggerations and everyda…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/)