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title: "zhōumò" means the weekend; "zhōumò kuàilè" (happy weekend) is a com… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: "zhōumò" means the weekend; "zhōumò kuàilè" (happy weekend) is a common Friday goodbye. Who acts: zhōumò, zhōumò kuàilè. 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 8

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"zhōumò" means the weekend; "zhōumò kuàilè" (happy weekend) is a common Friday goodbye.

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**Who acts:** zhōumò, zhōumò kuàilè · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** common Friday goodbye

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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 (zhōumò, zhōumò kuàilè), 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:8
# text = "zhōumò" means the weekend; "zhōumò kuàilè" (happy weekend) is a common Friday goodbye.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	zhōumò	zhōumò	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	zhōumò	zhōumò	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	kuàilè	kuàilè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | zhōumò |  |  |  | weekend |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | zhōumò kuàilè | a common Friday goodbye |  |  |  |  | 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): 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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