Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 1

ge is the everyday all-rounder, but long bendy things take tiáo, flat things take zhāng, books take běn and many animals take zhī, so the measure word paints a little picture of the shape.

Who acts: ge, long bendy things, flat things, books, many animals, measure word · What happens: be, take, paint · To what, where: everyday rounder, tiáo, zhāng, běn, zhī, little picture

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» 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 (ge, long bendy things, flat things, books), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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