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title: zhāng is for flat things with a big surface: yì zhāng zhǐ (paper), y… — Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictur… · tree and pragmatics
description: zhāng is for flat things with a big surface: yì zhāng zhǐ (paper), yì zhāng zhàopiàn (a photo), yì zhāng zhuōzi (a table), yì zhāng chuáng (a bed). Who acts: yì. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 8

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zhāng is for flat things with a big surface: yì zhāng zhǐ (paper), yì zhāng zhàopiàn (a photo), yì zhāng zhuōzi (a table), yì zhāng chuáng (a bed).

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**Who acts:** yì · **What happens:** be, zhāng, chuáng · **To what, where:** zhǐ

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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 (yì), 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:8
# text = zhāng is for flat things with a big surface: yì zhāng zhǐ (paper), yì zhāng zhàopiàn (a photo), yì zhāng zhuōzi (a table), yì zhāng chuáng (a bed).
# 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 ×3
1	zhāng	zhāng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	yì	yì	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	9	appos	_	_
12	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
13	zhǐ	zhǐ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	yì	yì	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
20	zhàopiàn	zhàopiàn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	yì	yì	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
28	zhuōzi	zhuōzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	yì	yì	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
36	chuáng	chuáng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	parataxis	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 |  |  |  |  |  | for flat things; with a big surface | tree rules |
| 2 | **zhāng** | gerund |  | zhǐ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **zhāng** | gerund | yì |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **zhāng** | gerund | yì |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **zhāng** | gerund | yì |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **chuáng** | gerund | yì *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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 ×3. **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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