Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 10

yī changes too: yí before a falling tone (yí ge, yíxià), yì before the other tones (yì tiān, yìbǎi), and plain yī when counting or at the end of a number like shíyī.

Who acts: yī · What happens: change, count

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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 (yī), 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	yī	yī	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 changes	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 tone	punct
5	yí	yí	ADV	_	9 tone	advmod
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 tone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tone	det
8	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tone	compound
9	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 ge	punct
11	yí	yí	X	_	12 ge	dep
12	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tone	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 yíxià	punct
14	yíxià	yíxià	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ge	conj
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 ge	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 yì	punct
17	yì	yì	CCONJ	_	21 tones	cc
18	before	before	ADP	_	21 tones	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tones	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tones	amod
21	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tone	parataxis
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 tiān	punct
23	yì	yì	ADP	_	24 tiān	case
24	tiān	tiān	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tones	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 yìbǎi	punct
26	yìbǎi	yìbǎi	NOUN	_	24 tiān	conj
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 tiān	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plain	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plain	cc
30	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tone	conj
31	yī	yī	ADV	_	30 plain	advmod
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 counting	advmod
33	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 plain	advcl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 end	cc
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 end	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 end	det
37	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 counting	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 number	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 number	det
40	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 end	nmod
41	like	like	ADP	_	42 shíyī	case
42	shíyī	shíyī	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 number	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	yī				before a falling tone		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	count	gerund	yī not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:10.

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): 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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