--- title: Some of Mei's claims hold: paper, printing, the compass, gunpowder a… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: Some of Mei's claims hold: paper, printing, the compass, gunpowder and silk really came from China, FIFA calls the ancient game cuju the earliest known form of football, and wild giant pandas live only in China. Who acts: Some, paper, FIFA, wild giant pandas. 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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 (Some, paper, FIFA, wild giant pandas), 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:3 # text = Some of Mei's claims hold: paper, printing, the compass, gunpowder and silk really came from China, FIFA calls the ancient game cuju the earliest known form of football, and wild giant pandas live only in China. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 Mei Mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 printing printing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 gunpowder gunpowder NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 really really ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 FIFA FIFA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obj 28 cuju cuju NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:appos 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 31 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 pandas panda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 41 only only ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | Some | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | paper and printing | | | China | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **call** | present | FIFA | game cuju | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cuju=Recipient | | 4 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **live** | present | wild giant pandas | | | China | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | | 6 | **claim** | | Mei | | | | | | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **form** | | | football | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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:3`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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