--- title: kǒu (mouth) counts the people in a family: nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ kǒu rén? as… — Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictur… · tree and pragmatics description: kǒu (mouth) counts the people in a family: nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ kǒu rén? asks how many people are in your family, and wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén means there are four. Who acts: kǒu, many people, four. 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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 (kǒu, many people, four), 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:12 # text = kǒu (mouth) counts the people in a family: nǐ jiā yǒu jǐ kǒu rén? asks how many people are in your family, and wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén means there are four. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 kǒu kǒu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 3 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 5 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 nǐ nǐ NOUN GW Number=Sing|Typo=Yes 19 obl _ _ 13 jiā jiā X GW _ 12 flat _ _ 14 yǒu yǒu X GW _ 12 flat _ _ 15 jǐ jǐ X GW _ 12 flat _ _ 16 kǒu kǒu X GW _ 12 flat _ _ 17 rén rén X GW _ 12 flat _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 19 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 wǒ wǒ ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 jiā jiā X GW _ 35 mark _ _ 31 yǒu yǒu X GW _ 30 flat _ _ 32 sì sì X GW _ 30 flat _ _ 33 kǒu kǒu X GW _ 30 flat _ _ 34 rén rén X GW _ 30 flat _ _ 35 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 38 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nsubj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **count** | present | kǒu | the people | | a family | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | nǐ | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | many people | | | your family | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | kǒu *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **be** | present | four | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:032-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters.lesson:12`. **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. **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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