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title: "shēngrì" means birthday; "nǐ de shēngrì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?" asks th… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "shēngrì" means birthday; "nǐ de shēngrì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?" asks the date, and Chinese dates go month then day. Who acts: shēngrì, nǐ, Chinese dates. 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 14

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"shēngrì" means birthday; "nǐ de shēngrì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?" asks the date, and Chinese dates go month then day.

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**Who acts:** shēngrì, nǐ, Chinese dates · **What happens:** mean, ask, go · **To what, where:** birthday, date

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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 (shēngrì, nǐ, Chinese dates), 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:14
# text = "shēngrì" means birthday; "nǐ de shēngrì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?" asks the date, and Chinese dates go month then day.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	shēngrì	shēngrì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	nsubj	_	_
9	de	de	X	GW	_	8	flat:foreign	_	_
10	shēngrì	shēngrì	X	GW	_	9	flat	_	_
11	shì	shì	X	GW	_	9	flat	_	_
12	jǐ	jǐ	X	GW	_	9	flat	_	_
13	yuè	yuè	X	GW	_	9	flat	_	_
14	jǐ	jǐ	X	GW	_	9	flat	_	_
15	hào	hào	X	NN	_	9	flat	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
18	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
26	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | shēngrì | birthday |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | nǐ | the date |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent date=Recipient |
| 3 | **go** | present | Chinese dates |  |  |  | day; month |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:14`.

**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, 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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