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title: duōshao? («DWAW-shaow») means how many or how much, for bigger or un… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: duōshao? («DWAW-shaow») means how many or how much, for bigger or unknown amounts: duōshao qián? is how much money? Who acts: duōshao. A sentence of the lesson «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Counting to 100 and lucky numbers, sentence 14

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duōshao? («DWAW-shaow») means how many or how much, for bigger or unknown amounts: duōshao qián? is how much money?

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**Who acts:** duōshao · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** many, much money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» 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 (duōshao), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:007-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers.lesson:14
# text = duōshao? («DWAW-shaow») means how many or how much, for bigger or unknown amounts: duōshao qián? is how much money?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 007-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers.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): no change
1	duōshao	duōshao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	_
5	DWAW	DWAW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shaow	shaow	X	GW	_	1	appos	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	duōshao	duōshao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	qián	qián	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
30	?	?	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 | **mean** | present | duōshao | many |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | much money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:007-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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