--- title: Mei and Danylo learnt to check their sources; the teacher said he le… — China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China · tree and pragmatics description: Mei and Danylo learnt to check their sources; the teacher said he learnt a lot from both of them. Who acts: Mei, teacher. 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 pragmatics of every claus --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 9 Mei and Danylo learnt to check their sources; the teacher said he learnt a lot from both of them. **Who acts:** Mei, teacher · **What happens:** learn, check, say · **To what, where:** sources, lot, both · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Mei, teacher), 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:9 # text = Mei and Danylo learnt to check their sources; the teacher said he learnt a lot from both of them. # 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 Mei mei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Danylo Danylo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 learnt learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 learnt learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 14 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past | Mei and Danylo | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | Mei and Danylo *not said here* | Sources's sources | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **learn** | past | teacher | a lot | | both | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Topic from both=Source | 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:9`. **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. 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