--- title: The First Emperor was buried with about 8,000 life-size clay soldier… — Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and… · tree and pragmatics description: The First Emperor was buried with about 8,000 life-size clay soldiers, horses and chariots, the Terracotta Army, each soldier with a different face, probably to guard him after death. 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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:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.lesson:13 # text = The First Emperor was buried with about 8,000 life-size clay soldiers, horses and chariots, the Terracotta Army, each soldier with a different face, probably to guard him after death. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Emperor emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 8,000 8,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 9 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound 12 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 chariots chariot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Terracotta Terracotta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Army Army PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 probably probably ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **bury** | past · passive | | the First Emperor | | | | with 8,000 size clay soldiers and horses and chariots | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | | | king | | after death | probably *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | 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:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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