Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 4

Watch the traps: Sunday has no number, 12 is shí'èr and not èrshí, and when Ming groans «I've told you a million times» he means many times, not a number to count.

Who acts: you, Sunday, 12, Ming, I · What happens: watch, have, be, groan, tell, mean · To what, where: traps, number, you · 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, Sunday, 12, Ming), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 traps	det
3	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shí'èr	punct
10	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 shí'èr	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 shí'èr	cop
12	shí'èr	shí'èr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Watch	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 èrshí	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 èrshí	advmod
15	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shí'èr	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 groans	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 groans	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 groans	advmod
19	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 groans	nsubj
20	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 means	advcl
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
23	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 groans	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 million	det
27	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 told	obl:unmarked
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 means	nsubj
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 times	amod
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 means	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 number	punct
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 number	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 number	det
37	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 count	mark
39	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 number	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	the traps				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme
2	have	present	Sunday	no number				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
3	is	present	12				shí'èr property	tree rules
4	groan	present	Ming					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	I		you	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	mean	present	Ming	a number		time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	count	to-infinitive	Ming not said here	a number 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: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): R7-rel-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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