Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 5
A measure word goes between the number and the noun: sān běn shū is three books and liǎng zhāng zhǐ is two sheets of paper.
Who acts: measure word · What happens: go, be · To what, where: number, three books, two sheets
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 (measure word), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | compound |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 noun | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 noun | det |
| 10 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 number | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sān | punct |
| 12 | sān | sān | X | _ | 4 goes | parataxis |
| 13 | běn | běn | X | _ | 12 sān | flat |
| 14 | shū | shū | X | _ | 12 sān | flat |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 books | cop |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 books | nummod |
| 17 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sān | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 liǎng | cc |
| 19 | liǎng | liǎng | X | _ | 12 sān | conj |
| 20 | zhāng | zhāng | X | _ | 19 liǎng | flat |
| 21 | zhǐ | zhǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 liǎng | flat |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sheets | cop |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 sheets | nummod |
| 24 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 books | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 paper | case |
| 26 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sheets | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a measure word | the number and the noun | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between number=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a measure word not said here | three books and two sheets | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a measure word not said here | two sheets | of paper | tree rules |
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:5.
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.
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