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title: "yīntiān" means a cloudy, grey day; yīn is the dark, shady half of y… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: "yīntiān" means a cloudy, grey day; yīn is the dark, shady half of yīn and yáng, and a sunny day is "qíngtiān". Who acts: yīntiān, yīn, sunny day. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 12

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"yīntiān" means a cloudy, grey day; yīn is the dark, shady half of yīn and yáng, and a sunny day is "qíngtiān".

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**Who acts:** yīntiān, yīn, sunny day · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** dark shady half, qíngtiān

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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 (yīntiān, yīn, sunny day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:12
# text = "yīntiān" means a cloudy, grey day; yīn is the dark, shady half of yīn and yáng, and a sunny day is "qíngtiān".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	yīntiān	yīntiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	yīn	yīn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	yīn	yīn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	yáng	yáng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	qíngtiān	qíngtiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | yīntiān |  |  |  | day |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | yīn | the dark shady half and qíngtiān |  |  |  | of yīn and yáng | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a sunny day | qíngtiān |  |  |  |  | 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:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:12`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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