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title: yāo («yow», high) is one when reading out phone, room or bus numbers… — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: yāo («yow», high) is one when reading out phone, room or bus numbers digit by digit, so it isn't mixed up with qī (seven). Who acts: yāo. A sentence of the lesson «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Counting 1 to 10, on one hand, sentence 17

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yāo («yow», high) is one when reading out phone, room or bus numbers digit by digit, so it isn't mixed up with qī (seven).

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**Who acts:** yāo · **What happens:** yow, be, read out, not mix up · **To what, where:** one, phone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (yāo), 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:17
# text = yāo («yow», high) is one when reading out phone, room or bus numbers digit by digit, so it isn't mixed up with qī (seven).
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	yāo	yāo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	yow	yow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	digit	digit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	qī	qī	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	appos	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yow** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | yāo | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read out** | gerund | yāo *not said here* | phone and room  numbers digit by digit or bus |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **mix up** | present · passive |  | phone |  |  |  | with qī | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with qī=Co-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:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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