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title: "chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: "chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of grandparents, even in spring. Who acts: duō diǎnr. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 15

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"chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of grandparents, even in spring.

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**Who acts:** duō diǎnr · **What happens:** mean, wear · **To what, where:** more layers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (duō diǎnr), 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:15
# text = "chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of grandparents, even in spring.
# 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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	chuān	chuān	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
3	duō	duō	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	diǎnr	diǎnr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | duō diǎnr |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | more layers |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent layer=Source |

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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:15`.

**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 ×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.

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

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