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title: yī («ee», high) is one; it changes tone before other words, as in yí… — Counting 1 to 10, on one hand · tree and pragmatics
description: yī («ee», high) is one; it changes tone before other words, as in yí ge (one of) and yì tiān (one day). Who acts: yī, ee. 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 every clause.
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# Counting 1 to 10, on one hand, sentence 6

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yī («ee», high) is one; it changes tone before other words, as in yí ge (one of) and yì tiān (one day).

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**Who acts:** yī, ee · **What happens:** be, change · **To what, where:** high one, tone

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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 (yī, ee), 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:6
# text = yī («ee», high) is one; it changes tone before other words, as in yí ge (one of) and yì tiān (one day).
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	yī	yī	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	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	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	yí	yí	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ge	ge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	yì	yì	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	tiān	tiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
34	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | yī | high one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | present | ee | tone and ge and tiān |  |  | before other words |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=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:6`.

**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 ×2, 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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