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title: shuìjiào (both falling) is to sleep and shuǐjiǎo (both dipping) is b… — The four tones: same sound, different meaning · tree and pragmatics
description: shuìjiào (both falling) is to sleep and shuǐjiǎo (both dipping) is boiled dumplings, the classic learner mix-up. Who acts: shuìjiào, shuǐjiǎo. A sentence of the lesson «The four tones: same sound, different meaning» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# The four tones: same sound, different meaning, sentence 13

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shuìjiào (both falling) is to sleep and shuǐjiǎo (both dipping) is boiled dumplings, the classic learner mix-up.

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**Who acts:** shuìjiào, shuǐjiǎo · **What happens:** be, boil · **To what, where:** boiled dumplings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The four tones: same sound, different meaning» 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 (shuìjiào, shuǐjiǎo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:002-the-four-tones.lesson:13
# text = shuìjiào (both falling) is to sleep and shuǐjiǎo (both dipping) is boiled dumplings, the classic learner mix-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 002-the-four-tones.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): no change
1	shuìjiào	shuìjiào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	shuǐjiǎo	shuǐjiǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	nsubj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	dipping	dipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	classic	classic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	learner	learner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
22	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | shuìjiào |  |  |  |  | both falling *obl*; sleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | shuǐjiǎo | boiled dumplings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:002-the-four-tones.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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