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title: A zero inside a hundred is said as líng: yìbǎi líng bā is 108, while… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A zero inside a hundred is said as líng: yìbǎi líng bā is 108, while yìbǎi bāshí is 180. Who acts: yìbǎi bāshí. 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 claus
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# Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 6

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A zero inside a hundred is said as líng: yìbǎi líng bā is 108, while yìbǎi bāshí is 180.

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**Who acts:** yìbǎi bāshí · **What happens:** say, líng, be · **To what, where:** zero, 108, 180 · **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 (yìbǎi bāshí), 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:6
# text = A zero inside a hundred is said as líng: yìbǎi líng bā is 108, while yìbǎi bāshí is 180.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	líng	líng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	yìbǎi	yìbǎi	ADV	FW	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	líng	líng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	nsubj	_	_
13	bā	bā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	108	108	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	yìbǎi	yìbǎi	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
19	bāshí	bāshí	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a zero inside a hundred |  |  |  | as líng | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **líng** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | yìbǎi *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 108 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | yìbǎi bāshí | 180 |  |  |  |  | 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:6`.

**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/).

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