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title: Watch the traps: Sunday has no number, 12 is shí'èr and not èrshí, a… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch the traps: Sunday has no number, 12 is shí'èr and not èrshí, and when Ming groans «I've told you a million times» he means many times, not a number to count. Who acts: you, Sunday, 12, Ming. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the chinese street cours
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# Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 4

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Watch the traps: Sunday has no number, 12 is shí'èr and not èrshí, and when Ming groans «I've told you a million times» he means many times, not a number to count.

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**Who acts:** you, Sunday, 12, Ming, I · **What happens:** watch, have, be, groan, tell, mean · **To what, where:** traps, number, you · **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 (you, Sunday, 12, Ming), 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:4
# text = Watch the traps: Sunday has no number, 12 is shí'èr and not èrshí, and when Ming groans «I've told you a million times» he means many times, not a number to count.
# 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
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	shí'èr	shí'èr	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	èrshí	èrshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the traps |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Sunday | no number |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | 12 |  |  |  |  | shí'èr *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **groan** | present | Ming |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | I |  | you |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 6 | **mean** | present | Ming | a number |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **count** | to-infinitive | Ming *not said here* | a number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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