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title: China, officially the People's Republic of China, says Taiwan is par… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics
description: China, officially the People's Republic of China, says Taiwan is part of China and must one day be joined, and has not ruled out using force. Who acts: China, Taiwan. A sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 11

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China, officially the People's Republic of China, says Taiwan is part of China and must one day be joined, and has not ruled out using force.

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**Who acts:** China, Taiwan · **What happens:** say, be, join, not rule out, use · **To what, where:** part, force · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (China, Taiwan), 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:11
# text = China, officially the People's Republic of China, says Taiwan is part of China and must one day be joined, and has not ruled out using force.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | China |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Taiwan | part |  |  |  | of China | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | must · passive | Taiwan *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **not** **rule out** | present · perfect | China *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | gerund | China *not said here* | force |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=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:11`.

**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, 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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