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title: "shénme shíhou?" means "when?"; "nǐ shénme shíhou lái?" is "when are… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "shénme shíhou?" means "when?"; "nǐ shénme shíhou lái?" is "when are you coming?". Who acts: shénme, nǐ shénme, you. 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 of every clause.
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# Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 13

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"shénme shíhou?" means "when?"; "nǐ shénme shíhou lái?" is "when are you coming?".

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**Who acts:** shénme, nǐ shénme, you · **What happens:** mean, be, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shénme, nǐ shénme, you), 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:13
# text = "shénme shíhou?" means "when?"; "nǐ shénme shíhou lái?" is "when are you coming?".
# 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 ×5
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	shénme	shénme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	shíhou	shíhou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	_
14	shénme	shénme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	shíhou	shíhou	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
16	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | shénme |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **does** | present | nǐ shénme and shíhou |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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 ×5. **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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