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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 (characters, 人, person, 山), 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:2 # text = Some characters began as drawings: 人 is a person walking, 山 is a mountain with three peaks, 木 is a tree with its branches and roots, and 日 was once a round sun. # 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 ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 drawings drawing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 7 人 人 NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 11 walking walking VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 13 山 山 NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 peaks peak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 木 木 NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 日 日 NOUN NN _ 37 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 34 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 37 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 sun. sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | some characters | | | | | as drawings | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | present | 人 | a person | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **walking** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | 山 | a mountain | | | | with three peaks | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | 木 | a tree | | | | with 木's branches and roots | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | 日 | a round sun. | | | | once *property* | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×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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