Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 13
Numbers are lucky or unlucky by sound: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get rich), jiǔ (9) sounds like long-lasting, liù (6) like going smoothly, and sì (4) sounds like sǐ (to die).
Who acts: Numbers, jiǔ, sì · What happens: be, rhyme, get, sound, go, die · To what, where: liù
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 (Numbers, jiǔ, sì), 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 | Numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lucky | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | cop |
| 3 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 unlucky | cc |
| 5 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lucky | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lucky | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 bā | punct |
| 9 | bā | bā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 8 | punct |
| 11 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 bā | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 8 | punct |
| 13 | rhymes | rhyme | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fā | case |
| 15 | fā | fā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rhymes | obl |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | parataxis |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 get | xcomp |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jiǔ | punct |
| 21 | jiǔ | jiǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sounds | nsubj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 9 | punct |
| 23 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 jiǔ | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 9 | punct |
| 25 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | conj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 lasting | case |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lasting | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 long | punct |
| 29 | lasting | lasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sounds | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 liù | punct |
| 31 | liù | liù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sounds | obl |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 6 | punct |
| 33 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 liù | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 6 | punct |
| 35 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 36 going | mark |
| 36 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sounds | parataxis |
| 37 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 36 going | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sì | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sì | cc |
| 40 | sì | sì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lucky | conj |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 4 | punct |
| 42 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 sì | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 4 | punct |
| 44 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 sì | acl:relcl |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 46 sǐ | case |
| 46 | sǐ | sǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sounds | obl |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 die | punct |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 die | mark |
| 49 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 44 sounds | parataxis |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 die | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Numbers | by sound and bā; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Numbers not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | rhyme | present | with fā | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with fā=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | sound | present | jiǔ | liù | like long lasting | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | go | gerund | smoothly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sound | present | sì not said here | like sǐ | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:13.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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