--- title: Characters built from pictures: 林 lín (two trees) is a wood, 森 sēn (… — Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictur… · tree and pragmatics description: Characters built from pictures: 林 lín (two trees) is a wood, 森 sēn (three trees) is in sēnlín, a forest, 明 míng (sun and moon) means bright, and 休 xiū (person and tree) means rest. Who acts: 林 lín, 森 sēn, 明 míng, 休 xiū. 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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 (林 lín, 森 sēn, 明 míng, 休 xiū), 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:14 # text = Characters built from pictures: 林 lín (two trees) is a wood, 森 sēn (three trees) is in sēnlín, a forest, 明 míng (sun and moon) means bright, and 休 xiū (person and tree) means rest. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 dislocated _ _ 2 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 6 林 林 X FW _ 7 flat:foreign _ _ 7 lín lín NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 森 森 X FW _ 17 flat:foreign _ _ 17 sēn sēn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 sēnlín sēnlín NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 明 明 X FW _ 30 flat:foreign _ _ 30 míng míng NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 40 休 休 X FW _ 41 flat:foreign _ _ 41 xiū xiū NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 43 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 47 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 48 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | participle | | Characters *not said here* | | pictures | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from picture=Material | | 2 | **is a** | present | 林 lín | a wood | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | 森 sēn | | | sēnlín and a forest | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | 明 míng | | | | | Characters *dislocated*; bright *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | 休 xiū | rest | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-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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