--- title: The day splits into zǎoshang (early morning), xiàwǔ (afternoon, lite… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics description: The day splits into zǎoshang (early morning), xiàwǔ (afternoon, literally after-noon) and wǎnshang (evening); wǎn also means "late", so "tài wǎn le" is "it's too late". Who acts: day, wǎn, tài le. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, wǎn, tài le), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:3 # text = The day splits into zǎoshang (early morning), xiàwǔ (afternoon, literally after-noon) and wǎnshang (evening); wǎn also means "late", so "tài wǎn le" is "it's too late". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 021-today-tomorrow-now-later.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 zǎoshang zǎoshang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 xiàwǔ xiàwǔ NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 literally literally ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 wǎnshang wǎnshang NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 26 wǎn wǎn NOUN FW Foreign=Yes 28 nsubj _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:ccomp 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 tài tài X FW Foreign=Yes 37 amod _ _ 36 wǎn wǎn X FW Foreign=Yes 35 flat _ _ 37 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:outer _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 too too ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split** | present | the day | | | | | into zǎoshang and xiàwǔ and wǎnshang *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into zǎoshang=Result | | 2 | **mean** | present | wǎn | late | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | tài le | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Today, tomorrow, now, later, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/2/) - next →: [Today, tomorrow, now, later, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/)