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title: China and Taiwan trade a lot with each other, and diplomats work eve… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics
description: China and Taiwan trade a lot with each other, and diplomats work every day to keep the peace. Who acts: China, diplomats. 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 20

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China and Taiwan trade a lot with each other, and diplomats work every day to keep the peace.

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**Who acts:** China, diplomats · **What happens:** trade, work, keep · **To what, where:** lot, peace

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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, diplomats), 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:20
# text = China and Taiwan trade a lot with each other, and diplomats work every day to keep the peace.
# 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): no change
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	trade	trade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	diplomats	diplomat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **trade** | present | China and Taiwan | a lot |  |  |  | with each | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent lot=Theme with each=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **work** | present | diplomats |  |  |  | day |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | diplomats *not said here* | the peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |

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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:20`.

**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): no change. **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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