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title: "fàngjià" means school holidays; "fàngjià le!" means "holidays have… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "fàngjià" means school holidays; "fàngjià le!" means "holidays have started!", shǔjià is the summer holiday and hánjià the winter holiday. Who acts: fàngjià, fàngjià le, holidays, shǔjià. A sentence of the lesson «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary
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# Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 16

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"fàngjià" means school holidays; "fàngjià le!" means "holidays have started!", shǔjià is the summer holiday and hánjià the winter holiday.

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**Who acts:** fàngjià, fàngjià le, holidays, shǔjià · **What happens:** mean, start, be · **To what, where:** school holidays, summer holiday · **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 (fàngjià, fàngjià le, holidays, shǔjià), 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:16
# text = "fàngjià" means school holidays; "fàngjià le!" means "holidays have started!", shǔjià is the summer holiday and hánjià the winter holiday.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	fàngjià	fàngjià	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	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	fàngjià	fàngjià	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	shǔjià	shǔjià	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	hánjià	hánjià	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | fàngjià | school holidays |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | fàngjià le |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **start** *in a quote* | present · perfect | holidays |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | present | shǔjià | the summer holiday and hánjià |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): 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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