--- title: China's government says Taiwan is part of China and must one day be… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics description: China's government says Taiwan is part of China and must one day be joined, and has not ruled out force; polls show most people in Taiwan want to keep things as they are. Who acts: government, Taiwan, polls, most people. 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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 (government, Taiwan, polls, most people), 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:5 # text = China's government says Taiwan is part of China and must one day be joined, and has not ruled out force; polls show most people in Taiwan want to keep things as they are. # 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 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Taiwan Taiwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 polls poll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Taiwan Taiwan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | China's government | | | | | | 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 | Taiwan *not said here* | force | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme | | 5 | **show** | present | polls | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **want** | present | most people in Taiwan | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | most people in Taiwan *not said here* | things | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 8 | **does** | present | People | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/4/) - next →: [Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/)