--- title: A Chinese Cinderella story, Ye Xian, was written down around 850 CE,… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics description: A Chinese Cinderella story, Ye Xian, was written down around 850 CE, and similar stories are told in many cultures. 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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:13 # text = A Chinese Cinderella story, Ye Xian, was written down around 850 CE, and similar stories are told in many cultures. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Cinderella Cinderella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Ye Ye PROPN NNP _ 7 flat _ _ 7 Xian Xian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 around around ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 850 850 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 CE ce NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cultures culture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write down** | past · passive | | a Chinese Cinderella story | | | | 850 CE *obl:unmarked* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | similar stories | | many cultures | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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: [Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, let…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/12/) - next →: [Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, let…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/)