--- title: Some pairs of words differ only by tone: mǎi (buy) and mài (sell), w… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Some pairs of words differ only by tone: mǎi (buy) and mài (sell), wèn (ask) and wěn (kiss), tāng (soup) and táng (sweets), māo (cat) and máo (fur). Who acts: pairs. 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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 (pairs), 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:12 # text = Some pairs of words differ only by tone: mǎi (buy) and mài (sell), wèn (ask) and wěn (kiss), tāng (soup) and táng (sweets), māo (cat) and máo (fur). # 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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 mǎi mǎi NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 buy buy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 mài mài NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sell sell NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 wèn wèn NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 wěn wěn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 tāng tāng NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 táng táng NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 37 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 appos _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 māo māo NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:appos 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 máo máo NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 47 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:appos 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **differ** | present | some pairs of words | | | | | by tone and mǎi and mài and wèn | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Olympiad: tone detectives and number p…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/10/) - next →: [Olympiad: tone detectives and number p…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/)