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title: Only Sunday breaks the pattern: it is xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì, where… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Only Sunday breaks the pattern: it is xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì, where tiān and rì both just mean "day", not week-seven. Who acts: Sunday, pattern, tiān. A sentence of the lesson «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 1

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Only Sunday breaks the pattern: it is xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì, where tiān and rì both just mean "day", not week-seven.

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**Who acts:** Sunday, pattern, tiān · **What happens:** break, be, mean · **To what, where:** pattern, xīngqītiān

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» 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 (Sunday, pattern, tiān), 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:1
# text = Only Sunday breaks the pattern: it is xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì, where tiān and rì both just mean "day", not week-seven.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	xīngqītiān	xīngqītiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	xīngqīrì	xīngqīrì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
14	tiān	tiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rì	rì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc:preconj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
27	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **break** | present | Sunday | the pattern |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | pattern | xīngqītiān or xīngqīrì |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | tiān and rì |  |  |  | day; week |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-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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