--- title: Numbers are lucky or unlucky by sound: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get ri… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Numbers are lucky or unlucky by sound: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get rich), jiǔ (9) sounds like long-lasting, liù (6) like going smoothly, and sì (4) sounds like sǐ (to die). Who acts: Numbers, jiǔ, sì. 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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 (Numbers, jiǔ, sì), 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:13 # text = Numbers are lucky or unlucky by sound: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get rich), jiǔ (9) sounds like long-lasting, liù (6) like going smoothly, and sì (4) sounds like sǐ (to die). # 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 Numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 bā bā NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 appos _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 rhymes rhyme VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 fā fā NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 jiǔ jiǔ NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 lasting lasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 liù liù NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 33 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 appos _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 like like SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 parataxis _ _ 37 smoothly smoothly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 sì sì NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 42 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 appos _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 45 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 sǐ sǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 die die VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 44 parataxis _ _ 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Numbers | | | | | by sound and bā; lucky *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Numbers *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **rhyme** | present | | | | | | with fā | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with fā=Co-Patient | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | | | | | | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **sound** | present | jiǔ | liù | | | | like long lasting | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | smoothly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sound** | present | sì *not said here* | | | | | like sǐ | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **die** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:13`. **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. 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