Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 6

ge is the most common measure word, used for people and many things, as in yí ge rén and liǎng ge píngguǒ (two apples); in fast talk people use ge a lot.

Who acts: ge, people · What happens: be, use · To what, where: common measure word, ge, fast talk

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, people), 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	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 common	advmod
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
6	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	compound
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
9	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 word	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 things	cc
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rén	punct
16	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 rén	case
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 as	fixed
18	yí	yí	ADP	_	20 rén	case
19	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rén	compound
20	rén	rén	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 píngguǒ	cc
22	liǎng	liǎng	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 píngguǒ	amod
23	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 píngguǒ	compound
24	píngguǒ	píngguǒ	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rén	conj
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 apples	punct
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 apples	nummod
27	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 píngguǒ	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 apples	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 use	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 talk	case
31	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 talk	amod
32	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	obl
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 use	nsubj
34	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 word	parataxis
35	ge	ge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lot	det
37	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ge	the common measure word			tree rules
2	use	participle		the common measure word not said here		for people and many things	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	present	people	ge	fast talk	a lot obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ge=Patient

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:6.

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. 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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