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title: Some numbers bring luck because of what they sound like: bā (8) rhym… — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: Some numbers bring luck because of what they sound like: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get rich), and sì (4) sounds like sǐ (die), so many families avoid it in house numbers and gifts. Who acts: numbers, sì, many families. A sentence of the lesson «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» of the chinese street cours
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# Counting 1 to 10, on one hand, sentence 4

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Some numbers bring luck because of what they sound like: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get rich), and sì (4) sounds like sǐ (die), so many families avoid it in house numbers and gifts.

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**Who acts:** numbers, sì, many families · **What happens:** bring, sound, rhyme, get, avoid · **To what, where:** luck, 4, house numbers

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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 (numbers, sì, many families), 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:4
# text = Some numbers bring luck because of what they sound like: bā (8) rhymes with fā (get rich), and sì (4) sounds like sǐ (die), so many families avoid it in house numbers and gifts.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bā	bā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	discourse	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fā	fā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sì	sì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sǐ	sǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **bring** | present | some numbers | luck |  |  |  | bā *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | present | numbers *= number* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rhyme** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with fā | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with fā=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sound** | present | sì *not said here* | 4 |  |  |  | like sǐ | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **avoid** | present | many families | luck |  | house numbers and gifts |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |

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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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**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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