Counting to 100 and lucky numbers, sentence 5
Numbers also make jokes and wishes: 520 (wǔ èr líng) sounds a bit like «I love you», 88 (bābā) is «bye-bye», and 99 sounds like «for ever and ever».
Who acts: Numbers, 520, number, 88, 99 · What happens: make, sound, love, be · To what, where: jokes, bit, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Numbers, 520, number, 88), 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 | Numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wishes | cc |
| 6 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jokes | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 sounds | punct |
| 8 | 520 | 520 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 sounds | nsubj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 líng | punct |
| 10 | wǔ | wǔ | ADP | _ | 12 líng | case |
| 11 | èr | èr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 líng | compound |
| 12 | líng | líng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 520 | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 líng | punct |
| 14 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bit | det |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sounds | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 « | case |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 love | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 love | nsubj |
| 20 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sounds | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 love | obj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 love | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 » | punct |
| 24 | 88 | 88 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 bye | nsubj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 bābā | punct |
| 26 | bābā | bābā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 88 | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 bābā | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 bye | cop |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 bye | punct |
| 30 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bye | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 bye | punct |
| 32 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | conj |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 bye | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sounds | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sounds | cc |
| 36 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 sounds | nsubj |
| 37 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sounds | conj |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 « | case |
| 39 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 ever | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 ever | case |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 make | advcl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ever | cc |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 ever | conj |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 ever | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Numbers | jokes and wishes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | 520 | a bit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | a number before shí and a number = number | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | 88 | bye property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sound | present | 99 | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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