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title: Ming goes to two schools: the normal one all week, and Zhōngwén xuéx… — School words · tree and pragmatics
description: Ming goes to two schools: the normal one all week, and Zhōngwén xuéxiào (Chinese school) on Saturday morning, where he learns to read and write. Who acts: Ming. A sentence of the lesson «School words» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# School words, sentence 0

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Ming goes to two schools: the normal one all week, and Zhōngwén xuéxiào (Chinese school) on Saturday morning, where he learns to read and write.

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**Who acts:** Ming · **What happens:** go, learn, read, write · **To what, where:** two schools

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This is a sentence of the lesson «School words» 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 (Ming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:015-school-words.lesson:0
# text = Ming goes to two schools: the normal one all week, and Zhōngwén xuéxiào (Chinese school) on Saturday morning, where he learns to read and write.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 015-school-words.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Zhōngwén	Zhōngwén	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	xuéxiào	xuéxiào	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Ming |  |  | two schools |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **learn** | present | Ming |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | Ming *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **write** | infinitive | Ming *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:015-school-words.lesson:0`.

**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.

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

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