--- title: China was ruled by dynasties, families passing power from parent to… — Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and… · tree and pragmatics description: China was ruled by dynasties, families passing power from parent to child, like a football club owned by one family for generations. Who acts: dynasties, families. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» of the history course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall/2/) [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/) / [Ancient China: dynasties, the First Em…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall/) / 2 # Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 2 China was ruled by dynasties, families passing power from parent to child, like a football club owned by one family for generations. **Who acts:** dynasties, families · **What happens:** rule, pass, own · **To what, where:** China, power, child, football club This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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 (dynasties, families), 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:2 # text = China was ruled by dynasties, families passing power from parent to child, like a football club owned by one family for generations. # 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 1 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 dynasties dynasty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 19 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:agent _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **rule** | past · passive | dynasties and families | China | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | | 2 | **pass** | gerund | families *not said here* | power | child | | | from parent; like a football club | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location to child=Destination | | 3 | **own** | participle | | a football club *not said here* | | | for generations | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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:2`. **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. **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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