--- title: tiáo is for long, thin, bendy things: yì tiáo yú (a fish), yì tiáo l… — Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictur… · tree and pragmatics description: tiáo is for long, thin, bendy things: yì tiáo yú (a fish), yì tiáo lù (a road), yì tiáo hé (a river), yì tiáo kùzi (a pair of trousers), and also snakes (shé) and dragons. Who acts: tiáo. 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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 (tiáo), 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:7 # text = tiáo is for long, thin, bendy things: yì tiáo yú (a fish), yì tiáo lù (a road), yì tiáo hé (a river), yì tiáo kùzi (a pair of trousers), and also snakes (shé) and dragons. # 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 tiáo tiáo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 bendy bendy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 yì yì X GW _ 9 parataxis _ _ 12 tiáo tiáo X IN _ 11 goeswith _ _ 13 yú yú X PRP _ 11 goeswith _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 yì yì CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 tiáo tiáo ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 lù lù X NN _ 11 flat _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 yì yì CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 tiáo tiáo ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 hé hé PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 yì yì X PRP _ 11 goeswith _ _ 36 tiáo tiáo X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 37 kùzi kùzi X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 also also ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 goeswith _ _ 48 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 49 shé shé NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 conj _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | tiáo | | | | | for long thin bendy things | 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. 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