Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 8

zhāng is for flat things with a big surface: yì zhāng zhǐ (paper), yì zhāng zhàopiàn (a photo), yì zhāng zhuōzi (a table), yì zhāng chuáng (a bed).

Who acts: yì · What happens: be, zhāng, chuáng · To what, where: zhǐ

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 (yì), 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	zhāng	zhāng	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 zhāng	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 surface	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 surface	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 surface	amod
9	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 things	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 yì	punct
11	yì	yì	X	ExtPos=PROPN	9 surface	appos
12	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 yì	advcl
13	zhǐ	zhǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 zhāng	obj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 paper	punct
15	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 zhǐ	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 paper	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 zhāng	punct
18	yì	yì	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 zhāng	nsubj
19	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 yì	conj
20	zhàopiàn	zhàopiàn	X	Foreign=Yes	11 yì	flat
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 photo	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 photo	det
23	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yì	conj
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 photo	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 zhāng	punct
26	yì	yì	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 zhāng	nsubj
27	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 yì	conj
28	zhuōzi	zhuōzi	X	Foreign=Yes	11 yì	flat
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 table	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 table	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yì	conj
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 table	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 zhāng	punct
34	yì	yì	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 zhāng	nsubj
35	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 yì	conj
36	chuáng	chuáng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 zhāng	advcl
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 bed	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bed	det
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 chuáng	parataxis
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 bed	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 things	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			for flat things; with a big surface	tree rules
2	zhāng	gerund		zhǐ		tree rules
3	zhāng	gerund	yì			tree rules
4	zhāng	gerund	yì			tree rules
5	zhāng	gerund	yì			tree rules
6	chuáng	gerund	yì not said here			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:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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