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title: Many games are ones you already know under other names: zhuō mícáng… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! · tree and pragmatics
description: Many games are ones you already know under other names: zhuō mícáng is hide and seek; «yī èr sān mùtourén!» (one, two, three, wooden man!) is Grandma's footsteps; tiào shéng is skipping. Who acts: Many games, you, zhuō mícáng, ones. A sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek
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# Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 3

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Many games are ones you already know under other names: zhuō mícáng is hide and seek; «yī èr sān mùtourén!» (one, two, three, wooden man!) is Grandma's footsteps; tiào shéng is skipping.

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**Who acts:** Many games, you, zhuō mícáng, ones, tiào shéng · **What happens:** be, know, seek, yī, skip · **To what, where:** ones, other names, hide, èr sān mùtourén, footsteps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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 (Many games, you, zhuō mícáng, ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:3
# text = Many games are ones you already know under other names: zhuō mícáng is hide and seek; «yī èr sān mùtourén!» (one, two, three, wooden man!) is Grandma's footsteps; tiào shéng is skipping.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	zhuō	zhuō	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod
13	mícáng	mícáng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	yī	yī	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
21	èr	èr	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	sān	sān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mùtourén	mùtourén	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	tiào	tiào	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	shéng	shéng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:appos
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Many games | ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | you | ones *not said here* |  | other names |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | zhuō mícáng | hide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | infinitive | zhuō mícáng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **yī** *in a quote* | past | ones *not said here* | èr sān mùtourén |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | Grandma's footsteps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **skip** | present · progressive | tiào shéng |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:3`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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