Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 1
Only Sunday breaks the pattern: it is xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì, where tiān and rì both just mean "day", not week-seven.
Who acts: Sunday, pattern, tiān · What happens: break, be, mean · To what, where: pattern, xīngqītiān
This is a sentence of the lesson «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the chinese street 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 (Sunday, pattern, tiān), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Sunday | advmod |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | nsubj |
| 3 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pattern | det |
| 5 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 xīngqītiān | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 xīngqītiān | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 xīngqītiān | cop |
| 9 | xīngqītiān | xīngqītiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | parataxis |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 xīngqīrì | cc |
| 11 | xīngqīrì | xīngqīrì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 xīngqītiān | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tiān | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 mean | advmod |
| 14 | tiān | tiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rì | cc |
| 16 | rì | rì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tiān | conj |
| 17 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 14 tiān | cc:preconj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 mean | advmod |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 xīngqītiān | acl:relcl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mean | obj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 week | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 week | advmod |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mean | obl |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 week | punct |
| 27 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 week | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Sunday | the pattern | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | pattern | xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | tiān and rì | day; week | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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, 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:chinese-street:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:1.
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, R6-punct-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.
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