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A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Olympiad: measure words and characters…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/32-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters/) / 5 # Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 5 A measure word goes between the number and the noun: sān běn shū is three books and liǎng zhāng zhǐ is two sheets of paper. **Who acts:** measure word · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** number, three books, two sheets 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 (measure word), 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:5 # text = A measure word goes between the number and the noun: sān běn shū is three books and liǎng zhāng zhǐ is two sheets of paper. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sān sān X GW _ 4 parataxis _ _ 13 běn běn X GW _ 12 flat _ _ 14 shū shū X NN _ 12 flat _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 liǎng liǎng X GW _ 12 conj _ _ 20 zhāng zhāng X GW _ 19 flat _ _ 21 zhǐ zhǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 sheets sheet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## 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 | **go** | present | a measure word | | | the number and the noun | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between number=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | a measure word *not said here* | three books and two sheets | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a measure word *not said here* | two sheets | | | | of paper | 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:5`. **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. 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