Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 17

For two of something you say liǎng (liǎng ge rén), but inside bigger numbers èr stays: shí'èr ge rén is 12 people and èrshí ge rén is 20 people.

Who acts: you, shí'èr ge rén, èrshí ge rén · What happens: say, liǎng, stay, be · To what, where: ge rén, bigger numbers, 12 people, 20 people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, shí'èr ge rén, èrshí ge rén), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 something	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 something	nummod
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 something	case
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 say	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	liǎng	liǎng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 say	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 liǎng	punct
9	liǎng	liǎng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 liǎng	conj
10	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rén	compound
11	rén	rén	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 liǎng	obj
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 liǎng	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stays	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 stays	cc
15	inside	inside	ADV	_	16 bigger	advmod
16	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 numbers	amod
17	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stays	obl
18	èr	èr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stays	amod
19	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 people	punct
21	shí'èr	shí'èr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rén	amod
22	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rén	compound
23	rén	rén	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 people	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 people	cop
25	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 people	nummod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 something	appos
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 people	cc
28	èrshí	èrshí	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 rén	amod
29	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rén	compound
30	rén	rén	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 people	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 people	cop
32	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 people	nummod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 people	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 people	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you		for something	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	liǎng	gerund				tree rules
3	liǎng	gerund		ge rén		tree rules
4	stay	present	you not said here	bigger numbers		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	shí'èr ge rén	12 people and 20 people		tree rules
6	is a	present	èrshí ge rén	20 people		tree rules

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:17.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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