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title: Taiwan later became a democracy. — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics
description: Taiwan later became a democracy. Who acts: Taiwan. 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 3

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Taiwan later became a democracy.

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**Who acts:** Taiwan · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** democracy

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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 (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:3
# text = Taiwan later became a democracy.
# 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	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **become** | past | Taiwan | a democracy |  |  |  | late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:3`.

**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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