Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 12

kǒu (mouth) counts the people in a family: nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ kǒu rén? asks how many people are in your family, and wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén means there are four.

Who acts: kǒu, many people, four · What happens: count, ask, be, mean · To what, where: people, family, nǐ · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (kǒu, many people, four), 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	kǒu	kǒu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 counts	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 mouth	punct
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kǒu	appos
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 mouth	punct
5	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 counts	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 nǐ	punct
12	nǐ	nǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	19 asks	obl
13	jiā	jiā	X	_	12 nǐ	flat
14	yǒu	yǒu	X	_	12 nǐ	flat
15	jǐ	jǐ	X	_	12 nǐ	flat
16	kǒu	kǒu	X	_	12 nǐ	flat
17	rén	rén	X	_	12 nǐ	flat
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 nǐ	punct
19	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 counts	parataxis
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 many	advmod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 family	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 family	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 family	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 family	nmod:poss
26	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asks	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 means	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 means	cc
29	wǒ	wǒ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 jiā	amod
30	jiā	jiā	X	_	35 means	mark
31	yǒu	yǒu	X	_	30 jiā	flat
32	sì	sì	X	_	30 jiā	flat
33	kǒu	kǒu	X	_	30 jiā	flat
34	rén	rén	X	_	30 jiā	flat
35	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 counts	conj
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 are	expl
37	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 means	ccomp
38	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 are	nsubj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 counts	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	count	present	kǒu	the people	a family	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present		nǐ		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	many people		your family	tree rules
4	mean	present	kǒu not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be	present	four		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:12.

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 ×2. 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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