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title: Tu Youyou used one: she tested an old Chinese remedy and found a mal… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics
description: Tu Youyou used one: she tested an old Chinese remedy and found a malaria medicine that won a Nobel Prize. Who acts: Tu, malaria medicine. A sentence of the lesson «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 7

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Tu Youyou used one: she tested an old Chinese remedy and found a malaria medicine that won a Nobel Prize.

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**Who acts:** Tu, malaria medicine · **What happens:** use, test, find, win · **To what, where:** one, old Chinese remedy, malaria medicine, Nobel Prize

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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 (Tu, malaria medicine), 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:7
# text = Tu Youyou used one: she tested an old Chinese remedy and found a malaria medicine that won a Nobel Prize.
# 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
1	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Youyou	Youyou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tested	test	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	malaria	malaria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Prize	Prize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Tu | one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **test** | past | Tu | a old Chinese remedy |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Tu *not said here* | a malaria medicine |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Topic |
| 4 | **win** | past | a malaria medicine | a Nobel Prize |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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:7`.

**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. **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/).

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