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title: What is hòutiān?» Thursday is day four, two days on is day six, so t… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: What is hòutiān?» Thursday is day four, two days on is day six, so the answer is Saturday, xīngqīliù. Who acts: Thursday, two days, answer. 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 t
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# Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 3

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What is hòutiān?» Thursday is day four, two days on is day six, so the answer is Saturday, xīngqīliù.

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**Who acts:** Thursday, two days, answer · **What happens:** hòutiān, be · **To what, where:** day, Saturday · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Thursday, two days, answer), 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:3
# text = What is hòutiān?» Thursday is day four, two days on is day six, so the answer is Saturday, xīngqīliù.
# 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 ×2
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hòutiān	hòutiān	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	»	»	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	xīngqīliù	xīngqīliù	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hòutiān** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Thursday |  |  |  | » day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | two days | day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the answer | Saturday and xīngqīliù |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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