--- title: Before a falling tone bù turns into rising bú (bú shì, bú yào, bú du… — Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Before a falling tone bù turns into rising bú (bú shì, bú yào, bú duì); before the other tones it stays bù (bù hǎo, bù xíng, bù chī). Who acts: tone bù, bù. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tone bù, bù), 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:9 # text = Before a falling tone bù turns into rising bú (bú shì, bú yào, bú duì); before the other tones it stays bù (bù hǎo, bù xíng, bù chī). # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 bù bù NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 bú bú NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 11 bú bú ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 shì shì NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 bú bú CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 yào yào NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 bú bú CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 duì duì NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 before before ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 bù bù NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 29 bù bù ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hǎo hǎo NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 bù bù ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 xíng xíng NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 bù bù CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 chī chī NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | present | a tone bù | | | rising bú | | bú shì bú yào bú duì | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bú=Trajectory | | 3 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stay** | present | bù | bù | | | before the other tones | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bù=Location | 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:9`. **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, 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. 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