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title: In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and cal… — Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself the First Emperor. Who acts: king. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 4

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In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself the First Emperor.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** conquer, war, call · **To what, where:** warring kingdoms, 221, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king), 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:4
# text = In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself the First Emperor.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	221	221	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Qin	Qin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	warring	war	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	Emperor	emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | the king of Qin | all warring kingdoms |  | 221  BC |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 2 | **war** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | past | the king of Qin *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |

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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:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.lesson:4`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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