Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 4

Tones matter here too: fēn (high) is a minute, but fèn (falling) is a portion — "shí fēnzhōng" is ten minutes, the most bargained-over time in any home.

Who acts: Tones, fēn, fèn, shí fēnzhōng · What happens: matter, be, bargain · To what, where: minute, portion, ten minutes

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 (Tones, fēn, fèn, shí fēnzhōng), 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	Tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 matter	nsubj
2	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 minutes	parataxis
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 matter	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 matter	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 fēn	punct
6	fēn	fēn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 minute	nsubj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fēn	amod
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 minute	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 minute	det
12	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 matter	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 portion	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 portion	cc
15	fèn	fèn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 portion	nsubj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 falling	punct
17	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fèn	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 falling	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 portion	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 portion	det
21	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 minute	conj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 portion	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 portion	punct
24	shí	shí	X	_	25 fēnzhōng	compound
25	fēnzhōng	fēnzhōng	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 minutes	nsubj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 fēnzhōng	punct
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 minutes	cop
28	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 minutes	nummod
29	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bargained	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bargained	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 bargained	advmod
33	bargained	bargain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 time	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 time	punct
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 time	case
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 minutes	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 home	case
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 home	det
39	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 time	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 matter	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	matter	present	Tones		here		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	fēn	a minute but a portion			tree rules
3	is a	present	fèn	a portion			tree rules
4	is a	present	shí fēnzhōng	ten minutes		time	tree rules
5	bargain	participle					vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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:4.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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