Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 6

"xīngqīliù" means Saturday, "week-six"; "zhōuliù" is another way of saying it, and many children go to Chinese school on Saturday.

Who acts: xīngqīliù, zhōuliù, way, many children · What happens: mean, be, say, go · To what, where: way, zhōuliù, Chinese school · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (xīngqīliù, zhōuliù, way, many children), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 xīngqīliù	punct
2	xīngqīliù	xīngqīliù	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 xīngqīliù	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 week	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 week	punct
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Saturday	appos
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 six	punct
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 week	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 six	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 zhōuliù	punct
14	zhōuliù	zhōuliù	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 way	nsubj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 zhōuliù	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 way	cop
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	parataxis
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 saying	mark
20	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 way	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saying	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 go	nsubj
26	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 school	case
28	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 school	amod
29	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 Saturday	case
31	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	mean	present	xīngqīliù			saturday	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	zhōuliù	another way			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	another way not said here	zhōuliù			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	go	present	many children		Chinese school	saturday	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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:6.

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): 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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