Counting to 100 and lucky numbers, sentence 18
Prices in Chinese shops often end in 8 or 9 for luck, not only for marketing.
Who acts: Prices · What happens: end · To what, where: 8
This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» 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 (Prices), 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 | Prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 end | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 shops | case |
| 3 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shops | amod |
| 4 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Prices | nmod |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 end | advmod |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 8 | case |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 end | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 9 | cc |
| 10 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 8 | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 luck | case |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marketing | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 marketing | advmod |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 marketing | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 marketing | case |
| 17 | marketing | marketing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 luck | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Prices in Chinese shops | 8 | for luck and marketing; often property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:007-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers.lesson:18.
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): R5-strong ×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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