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title: zhī is for many animals, such as yì zhī māo (a cat), yì zhī niǎo (a… — Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictur… · tree and pragmatics
description: zhī is for many animals, such as yì zhī māo (a cat), yì zhī niǎo (a bird) and yì zhī tùzi (a rabbit); a dog can take zhī or tiáo. Who acts: zhī, yì, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 10

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zhī is for many animals, such as yì zhī māo (a cat), yì zhī niǎo (a bird) and yì zhī tùzi (a rabbit); a dog can take zhī or tiáo.

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**Who acts:** zhī, yì, dog · **What happens:** be, zhī, take · **To what, where:** niǎo, zhī

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» 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 (zhī, yì, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:032-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters.lesson:10
# text = zhī is for many animals, such as yì zhī māo (a cat), yì zhī niǎo (a bird) and yì zhī tùzi (a rabbit); a dog can take zhī or tiáo.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 032-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters.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	zhī	zhī	NOUN	NN	_	2	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	yì	yì	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	zhī	zhī	NOUN	NN	_	7	obl	_	_
11	māo	māo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	yì	yì	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	zhī	zhī	NOUN	NN	_	2	parataxis	_	_
19	niǎo	niǎo	NOUN	FW	_	18	obj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	yì	yì	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
26	zhī	zhī	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	tùzi	tùzi	NOUN	FW	_	25	obj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
37	zhī	zhī	NOUN	NN	_	36	obj	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	tiáo	tiáo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **be** | present | zhī |  |  |  |  | for many animals | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **zhī** |  | yì | niǎo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | can | a dog | zhī or tiáo |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zhī=Theme |

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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:032-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters.lesson:10`.

**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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