--- title: Picture Ming's big sister holding up a card: «Today is xīngqīsì. — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Ming's big sister holding up a card: «Today is xīngqīsì. Who acts: you, big sister, Today. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Olympiad: tone detectives and number p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/) / 2 # Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 2 Picture Ming's big sister holding up a card: «Today is xīngqīsì. **Who acts:** you, big sister, Today · **What happens:** picture, hold up, be · **To what, where:** big sister, card · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, big sister, Today), 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:2 # text = Picture Ming's big sister holding up a card: «Today is xīngqīsì. # 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): no change 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 xīngqīsì xīngqīsì ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ming's big sister | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sister=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **hold up** | gerund | Ming's big sister *not said here* | a card | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot card=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Today | | | | | xīngqīsì *property* | 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:2`. **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): no change. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/1/) - next →: [Olympiad: tone detectives and number p…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/31-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles/)