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title: bā («bah», high) is eight, the luckiest number because it rhymes wit… — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: bā («bah», high) is eight, the luckiest number because it rhymes with fā (to get rich); shown as an L of thumb and index finger, which is not pointing a gun at anyone. Who acts: bā, bah, L. A sentence of the lesson «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school
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# Counting 1 to 10, on one hand, sentence 13

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bā («bah», high) is eight, the luckiest number because it rhymes with fā (to get rich); shown as an L of thumb and index finger, which is not pointing a gun at anyone.

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**Who acts:** bā, bah, L · **What happens:** be, rhyme, get, show, not point · **To what, where:** eight, fā, gun, anyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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 (bā, bah, L), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:006-counting-one-to-ten.lesson:13
# text = bā («bah», high) is eight, the luckiest number because it rhymes with fā (to get rich); shown as an L of thumb and index finger, which is not pointing a gun at anyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 006-counting-one-to-ten.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	bā	bā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bah	bah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fā	fā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	appos	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	L	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	index	index	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 a** | present | bā | eight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rhyme** | present | bah |  |  |  |  | with fā | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with fā=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **show** | participle |  | fā *not said here* |  |  |  | as a L of thumb and index finger | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **point** | present · progressive | a L of thumb and index finger | a gun |  | anyone |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient |

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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:006-counting-one-to-ten.lesson:13`.

**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, R7-rel-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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