Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 10

zhī is for many animals, such as yì zhī māo (a cat), yì zhī niǎo (a bird) and yì zhī tùzi (a rabbit); a dog can take zhī or tiáo.

Who acts: zhī, yì, dog · What happens: be, zhī, take · To what, where: niǎo, zhī

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 (zhī, yì, dog), 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	zhī	zhī	NOUN	_	2 is	nsubj
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 animals	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 is	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 yì	case
9	yì	yì	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 such	obl
10	zhī	zhī	NOUN	_	7 such	obl
11	māo	māo	X	Foreign=Yes	5 animals	dep
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 cat	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	parataxis
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 cat	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
17	yì	yì	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 zhī	nsubj
18	zhī	zhī	NOUN	_	2 is	parataxis
19	niǎo	niǎo	NOUN	_	18 zhī	obj
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 bird	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bird	det
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 zhī	parataxis
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 bird	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 yì	cc
25	yì	yì	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 zhī	conj
26	zhī	zhī	ADP	_	27 tùzi	case
27	tùzi	tùzi	NOUN	_	25 yì	obj
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 rabbit	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rabbit	det
30	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yì	parataxis
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 rabbit	punct
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 take	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dog	det
34	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 take	aux
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 yì	advcl
37	zhī	zhī	NOUN	_	36 take	obj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 tiáo	cc
39	tiáo	tiáo	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 zhī	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 zhī	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be	present	zhī		for many animals	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	zhī		yì	niǎo		tree rules
3	take	can	a dog	zhī or tiáo		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zhī=Theme

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:032-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters.lesson:10.

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): no change. 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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