--- title: For two of something you say liǎng (liǎng ge rén), but inside bigger… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: For two of something you say liǎng (liǎng ge rén), but inside bigger numbers èr stays: shí'èr ge rén is 12 people and èrshí ge rén is 20 people. Who acts: you, shí'èr ge rén, èrshí ge rén. 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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 (you, shí'èr ge rén, èrshí ge rén), 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:17 # text = For two of something you say liǎng (liǎng ge rén), but inside bigger numbers èr stays: shí'èr ge rén is 12 people and èrshí ge rén is 20 people. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 liǎng liǎng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 liǎng liǎng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 10 ge ge NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 rén rén NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 inside inside ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 18 èr èr ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 20 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 shí'èr shí'èr ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 ge ge NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 rén rén NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 èrshí èrshí ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 ge ge NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 rén rén NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | for something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **liǎng** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **liǎng** | gerund | | ge rén | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | present | you *not said here* | bigger numbers | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | shí'èr ge rén | 12 people and 20 people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | èrshí ge rén | 20 people | | | | | tree rules | 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:17`. **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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