Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 3

Dates go big to small: month, then day, so 8 March is "sān yuè bā hào"; and some grandparents also count birthdays by the moon calendar, so their birthday moves every year.

Who acts: Dates, 8 March, grandparents, birthday · What happens: go, be, count, move · To what, where: sān bā hào, birthdays

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 (Dates, 8 March, grandparents, birthday), 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	Dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 go	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 small	case
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 month	punct
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 big	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 day	advmod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 month	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hào	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 March	advmod
13	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 March	nummod
14	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hào	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hào	cop
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 sān	punct
17	sān	sān	X	Foreign=Yes	20 hào	amod
18	yuè	yuè	X	Foreign=Yes	17 sān	flat
19	bā	bā	X	_	20 hào	compound
20	hào	hào	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 hào	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 count	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 count	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 grandparents	det
25	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 count	nsubj
26	also	also	ADV	_	27 count	advmod
27	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
28	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 count	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 calendar	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 calendar	det
31	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calendar	compound
32	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 count	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 moves	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	37 moves	advmod
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 birthday	nmod:poss
36	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 moves	nsubj
37	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 count	advcl
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 year	det
39	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 moves	obl:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Dates			big property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	8 March	sān bā hào			tree rules
3	count	present	some grandparents	birthdays		by the moon calendar	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme
4	move	present	grandparents's birthday		year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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, 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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