--- title: Both Ukraine and China have long, rich histories; every nation has p… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: Both Ukraine and China have long, rich histories; every nation has proud myths, and checking them kindly against sources is what history class is for. Who acts: Ukraine, nation, 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 (Ukraine, nation, 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:22 # text = Both Ukraine and China have long, rich histories; every nation has proud myths, and checking them kindly against sources is what history class is for. # 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 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 2 cc:preconj _ _ 2 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 histories history NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 18 checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 acl _ _ 25 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Ukraine and China | long rich histories | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | every nation | proud myths | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Patient | | 3 | **check** | gerund | | myths *= myth* | | | | against sources; kindly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | history class | sources *not said here* | | | | | 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:22`. **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. **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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