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title: "shí fēnzhōng" means ten minutes; fēn (minute) is high and level, wh… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "shí fēnzhōng" means ten minutes; fēn (minute) is high and level, while fèn (falling) means a portion. Who acts: shí fēnzhōng, fēn, fèn. 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 pragmatics
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# Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 11

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"shí fēnzhōng" means ten minutes; fēn (minute) is high and level, while fèn (falling) means a portion.

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**Who acts:** shí fēnzhōng, fēn, fèn · **What happens:** mean, be, fall · **To what, where:** portion

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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 (shí fēnzhōng, fēn, fèn), 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:11
# text = "shí fēnzhōng" means ten minutes; fēn (minute) is high and level, while fèn (falling) means a portion.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	shí	shí	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	fēnzhōng	fēnzhōng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	fēn	fēn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	fèn	fèn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | shí fēnzhōng |  |  |  | minute |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | fēn |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund | fèn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | fèn | a portion |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Topic |

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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:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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