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title: Mandarin numbers are built from parts: shísān is ten-three (13), sān… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Mandarin numbers are built from parts: shísān is ten-three (13), sānshí is three-tens (30), sānshísān is 33, and jiǔshíjiǔ is 99. Who acts: sānshí, jiǔshíjiǔ. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 5

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Mandarin numbers are built from parts: shísān is ten-three (13), sānshí is three-tens (30), sānshísān is 33, and jiǔshíjiǔ is 99.

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**Who acts:** sānshí, jiǔshíjiǔ · **What happens:** build, be · **To what, where:** Mandarin numbers, parts, ten three, three tens, 33, 99

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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 (sānshí, jiǔshíjiǔ), 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:5
# text = Mandarin numbers are built from parts: shísān is ten-three (13), sānshí is three-tens (30), sānshísān is 33, and jiǔshíjiǔ is 99.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mandarin	mandarin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shísān	shísān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	sānshí	sānshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sānshísān	sānshísān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	jiǔshíjiǔ	jiǔshíjiǔ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **build** | present · passive |  | Mandarin numbers |  | parts and shísān |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from part=Material |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | ten three |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | sānshí | three tens and sānshísān |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | 33 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | jiǔshíjiǔ | 99 |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:5`.

**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, 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.

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

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