--- title: "jǐ diǎn le?" means "what time is it?" and the answer is like "sān d… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics description: "jǐ diǎn le?" means "what time is it?" and the answer is like "sān diǎn le", it's three o'clock; diǎn means dot, o'clock. Who acts: jǐ, le, answer, diǎn. 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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 (jǐ, le, answer, diǎn), 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:9 # text = "jǐ diǎn le?" means "what time is it?" and the answer is like "sān diǎn le", it's three o'clock; diǎn means dot, o'clock. # 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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 jǐ jǐ X FW _ 7 nsubj _ _ 3 diǎn diǎn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 9 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 11 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 sān sān ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 diǎn diǎn NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 diǎn diǎn NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | jǐ | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | le | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the answer | | | | | like sān diǎn le | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | answer | three o'clock | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | diǎn | dot and o'clock | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Topic | 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:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/8/) - next →: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/)