Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 9

Before a falling tone bù turns into rising bú (bú shì, bú yào, bú duì); before the other tones it stays bù (bù hǎo, bù xíng, bù chī).

Who acts: tone bù, bù · What happens: fall, turn, rise, stay · To what, where: rising bú, bù

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 (tone bù, bù), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	6 turns	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bù	det
3	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tone	amod
4	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bù	compound
5	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	nsubj
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 bú	case
8	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bú	amod
9	bú	bú	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 shì	punct
11	bú	bú	ADP	_	12 shì	case
12	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 yào	punct
14	bú	bú	CCONJ	_	15 yào	cc
15	yào	yào	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	12 shì	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 duì	punct
17	bú	bú	CCONJ	_	18 duì	cc
18	duì	duì	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shì	conj
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 shì	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 tones	punct
21	before	before	ADP	_	24 tones	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tones	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tones	amod
24	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stays	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stays	nsubj
26	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turns	conj
27	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stays	obj
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	33 xíng	punct
29	bù	bù	ADP	_	30 hǎo	case
30	hǎo	hǎo	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	33 xíng	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 xíng	punct
32	bù	bù	ADP	_	33 xíng	case
33	xíng	xíng	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bù	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 chī	punct
35	bù	bù	CCONJ	_	36 chī	cc
36	chī	chī	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 xíng	conj
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 xíng	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turns	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	present	a tone bù		rising bú		bú shì bú yào bú duì	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bú=Trajectory
3	rise	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay	present	bù	bù		before the other tones		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bù=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:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:9.

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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