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title: yī changes too: yí before a falling tone (yí ge, yíxià), yì before t… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: yī changes too: yí before a falling tone (yí ge, yíxià), yì before the other tones (yì tiān, yìbǎi), and plain yī when counting or at the end of a number like shíyī. Who acts: yī. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the chinese street course of Mova's prima
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# Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 10

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yī changes too: yí before a falling tone (yí ge, yíxià), yì before the other tones (yì tiān, yìbǎi), and plain yī when counting or at the end of a number like shíyī.

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**Who acts:** yī · **What happens:** change, count

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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 (yī), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:10
# text = yī changes too: yí before a falling tone (yí ge, yíxià), yì before the other tones (yì tiān, yìbǎi), and plain yī when counting or at the end of a number like shíyī.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.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	yī	yī	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	yí	yí	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	yí	yí	X	FW	_	12	dep	_	_
12	ge	ge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	yíxià	yíxià	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
17	yì	yì	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
23	yì	yì	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	tiān	tiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	yìbǎi	yìbǎi	NOUN	FW	_	24	conj	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
31	yī	yī	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
33	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	shíyī	shíyī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | yī |  |  |  | before a falling tone |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | yī *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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