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title: dì yī («DEE ee») means first; dì before a number makes it an order,… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: dì yī («DEE ee») means first; dì before a number makes it an order, so dì yī míng is first place. Who acts: you, DEE ee », number, yī. 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 16

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dì yī («DEE ee») means first; dì before a number makes it an order, so dì yī míng is first place.

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**Who acts:** you, DEE ee », number, yī · **What happens:** dì, mean, make, be · **To what, where:** », first place

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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 (you, DEE ee », number, yī), 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:16
# text = dì yī («DEE ee») means first; dì before a number makes it an order, so dì yī míng is first place.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	dì	dì	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yī	yī	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	DEE	DEE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	dì	dì	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	dì	dì	ADV	RB	_	23	compound	_	_
23	yī	yī	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	míng	míng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **dì** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | DEE ee » |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | a number | » |  |  |  | dì *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present | yī | first place |  |  |  |  | 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:16`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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