--- title: "zuótiān" means yesterday; zuó rises, while zuò (falling) means to s… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics description: "zuótiān" means yesterday; zuó rises, while zuò (falling) means to sit or to do. Who acts: zuótiān, zuó, zuò. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Today, tomorrow, now, later](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/) / 7 # Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 7 "zuótiān" means yesterday; zuó rises, while zuò (falling) means to sit or to do. **Who acts:** zuótiān, zuó, zuò · **What happens:** mean, rise, fall, sit, do 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 (zuótiān, zuó, zuò), 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:7 # text = "zuótiān" means yesterday; zuó rises, while zuò (falling) means to sit or to 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 zuótiān zuótiān 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 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 zuó zuó NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 rises rise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 zuò zuò NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:ccomp 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | zuótiān | | | | yesterday | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rise** | | zuó | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | zuò *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | zuò | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | zuò *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | zuò *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/6/) - next →: [Today, tomorrow, now, later, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/)