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title: Only a small share of characters are pictures; most join a meaning p… — Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictur… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only a small share of characters are pictures; most join a meaning part and a sound part. Who acts: most. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» 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: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 17

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Only a small share of characters are pictures; most join a meaning part and a sound part.

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**Who acts:** most · **What happens:** be, join · **To what, where:** meaning part

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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 (most), 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:17
# text = Only a small share of characters are pictures; most join a meaning part and a sound part.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nsubj	_	_
11	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of pictures | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | infinitive | most | a meaning part and a sound part |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |

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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:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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