--- title: After a civil war in 1949, the Communist Party set up the People's R… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics description: After a civil war in 1949, the Communist Party set up the People's Republic of China on the mainland, and the losing government moved to the island of Taiwan, keeping the old name, the Republic of China. Who acts: Communist Party, losing government. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Communist Party, losing government), 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:2 # text = After a civil war in 1949, the Communist Party set up the People's Republic of China on the mainland, and the losing government moved to the island of Taiwan, keeping the old name, the Republic of China. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1949 1949 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Communist Communist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 People People PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mainland mainland NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Taiwan Taiwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set up** | past | the Communist Party | the People's Republic of China | | the mainland | after a civil war in 1949 | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent republic=Theme on mainland=Destination | | 2 | **lose** | gerund | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **move** | past | the losing government | | | the island of Taiwan | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to island=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | gerund | the losing government *not said here* | the old name | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | 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:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/1/) - next →: [Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/)