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title: Listen for tones: zuó rising is in zuótiān, yesterday, but zuò falli… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: Listen for tones: zuó rising is in zuótiān, yesterday, but zuò falling is "sit" or "do". Who acts: you, zuó rising, zuò falling. A sentence of the lesson «Today, tomorrow, now, later» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 4

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Listen for tones: zuó rising is in zuótiān, yesterday, but zuò falling is "sit" or "do".

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**Who acts:** you, zuó rising, zuò falling · **What happens:** listen, be, do · **To what, where:** zuótiān

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 (you, zuó rising, zuò falling), 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:4
# text = Listen for tones: zuó rising is in zuótiān, yesterday, but zuò falling is "sit" or "do".
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	zuó	zuó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rising	rising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	zuótiān	zuótiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	zuò	zuò	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for tones and zuótiān | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tone=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | zuó rising |  |  | zuótiān | yesterday |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | zuò falling |  |  |  |  | sit *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | zuò falling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:4`.

**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, R8-pos-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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