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title: "jīntiān" means today; "jīntiān wánr shénme?" is "what are we playin… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: "jīntiān" means today; "jīntiān wánr shénme?" is "what are we playing today?". Who acts: jīntiān, we. 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 5

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"jīntiān" means today; "jīntiān wánr shénme?" is "what are we playing today?".

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**Who acts:** jīntiān, we · **What happens:** mean, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (jīntiān, we), 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:5
# text = "jīntiān" means today; "jīntiān wánr shénme?" is "what are we playing today?".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	jīntiān	jīntiān	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	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	jīntiān	jīntiān	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
9	wánr	wán	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	shénme	shénme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
19	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
22	.	.	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 | jīntiān |  |  |  | today |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we |  |  |  | today | play *property* | 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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**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): 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.

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