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title: "sān diǎn bàn" means half past three; bàn means half, so "yí ge bàn… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "sān diǎn bàn" means half past three; bàn means half, so "yí ge bàn xiǎoshí" is an hour and a half. Who acts: sān diǎn bàn, bàn, yí bàn xiǎoshí. 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 the pr
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# Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 10

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"sān diǎn bàn" means half past three; bàn means half, so "yí ge bàn xiǎoshí" is an hour and a half.

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**Who acts:** sān diǎn bàn, bàn, yí bàn xiǎoshí · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** half, hour

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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 (sān diǎn bàn, bàn, yí bàn xiǎoshí), 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:10
# text = "sān diǎn bàn" means half past three; bàn means half, so "yí ge bàn xiǎoshí" is an hour and a half.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	sān	sān	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	diǎn	diǎn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bàn	bàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind
8	past	past	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	bàn	bàn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	yí	yí	NUM	CD	_	20	nummod	_	_
18	ge	ge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bàn	bàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	xiǎoshí	xiǎoshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **mean** | present | sān diǎn bàn | half |  |  |  | past three | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | bàn | half |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | yí bàn xiǎoshí | a hour and a half |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:10`.

**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 ×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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