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title: běn is for books and things bound like books: yì běn shū (a book), y… — Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictur… · tree and pragmatics
description: běn is for books and things bound like books: yì běn shū (a book), yì běn zìdiǎn (a dictionary). Who acts: běn. 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
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# Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 9

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běn is for books and things bound like books: yì běn shū (a book), yì běn zìdiǎn (a dictionary).

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**Who acts:** běn · **What happens:** be, bound · **To what, where:** books

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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 (běn), 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:9
# text = běn is for books and things bound like books: yì běn shū (a book), yì běn zìdiǎn (a dictionary).
# 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 ×1
1	běn	běn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	bound	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	yì	yì	X	GW	_	7	conj	_	_
12	běn	běn	X	GW	_	11	flat	_	_
13	shū	shū	X	NN	_	11	flat	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	yì	yì	X	PRP	_	11	goeswith	_	_
20	běn	běn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
21	zìdiǎn	zìdiǎn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dictionary	dictionary	X	NN	_	11	flat	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **be** | present | běn |  |  |  |  | for books and things | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bound** | participle |  | books and things *not said here* |  |  |  | like books | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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 ×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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