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title: The Great Wall is not one wall but many, built over 2,000 years agai… — Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Great Wall is not one wall but many, built over 2,000 years against horse-riding raiders from the north. Who acts: Great Wall. 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
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# Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 6

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The Great Wall is not one wall but many, built over 2,000 years against horse-riding raiders from the north.

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**Who acts:** Great Wall · **What happens:** not be, be, build · **To what, where:** one wall

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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 (Great Wall), 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:6
# text = The Great Wall is not one wall but many, built over 2,000 years against horse-riding raiders from the north.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wall	Wall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	raiders	raider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the Great Wall | one wall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Great Wall *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  | year | against riding raiders from the north | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:6`.

**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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