--- title: The Chinese week is a number game: xīngqī means week, and Monday is… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese week is a number game: xīngqī means week, and Monday is "week-one", xīngqīyī, Tuesday week-two, all the way to Saturday, xīngqīliù, week-six. Who acts: Chinese week, Monday. 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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 (Chinese week, Monday), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:0 # text = The Chinese week is a number game: xīngqī means week, and Monday is "week-one", xīngqīyī, Tuesday week-two, all the way to Saturday, xīngqīliù, week-six. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 xīngqī xīngqī ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 xīngqīyī xīngqīyī PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 xīngqīliù xīngqīliù PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 39 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 appos _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Chinese week | a number game and all way to Saturday and xīngqīliù | | | | xīngqīyī *nmod* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | week | xīngqī *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Monday | week one | | | | | 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:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Today, tomorrow, now, later, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/16/) - next →: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/)