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title: There is no war between China and Taiwan; there are warnings, angry… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no war between China and Taiwan; there are warnings, angry words and shows of strength. Who acts: war, warnings. A sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 1

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There is no war between China and Taiwan; there are warnings, angry words and shows of strength.

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**Who acts:** war, warnings · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** strength

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics 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 (war, warnings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:1
# text = There is no war between China and Taiwan; there are warnings, angry words and shows of strength.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | present | no war between China and Taiwan |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | warnings and angry words and shows of strength |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **show** |  |  | strength |  |  |  |  | nom show «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:1`.

**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): R7-rel-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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