--- title: Dates go big to small: month, then day, so 8 March is "sān yuè bā hà… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: Dates go big to small: month, then day, so 8 March is "sān yuè bā hào"; and some grandparents also count birthdays by the moon calendar, so their birthday moves every year. Who acts: Dates, 8 March, grandparents, birthday. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dates, 8 March, grandparents, birthday), 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:3 # text = Dates go big to small: month, then day, so 8 March is "sān yuè bā hào"; and some grandparents also count birthdays by the moon calendar, so their birthday moves every year. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sān sān X FW Foreign=Yes 20 amod _ _ 18 yuè yuè X FW Foreign=Yes 17 flat _ _ 19 bā bā X FW _ 20 compound _ _ 20 hào hào NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 birthdays birthday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Dates | | | | | big *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | 8 March | sān bā hào | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **count** | present | some grandparents | birthdays | | | | by the moon calendar | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | grandparents's birthday | | | | year | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:3`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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