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title: wǔ èr líng (520) sounds a bit like wǒ ài nǐ (I love you), so kids gi… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: wǔ èr líng (520) sounds a bit like wǒ ài nǐ (I love you), so kids giggle about it, and 20 May is a sweethearts' day online in China; 88 (bābā) means bye-bye. Who acts: wǔ, I, kids, May. A sentence of the lesson «Counting to 100 and lucky numbers» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school
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# Counting to 100 and lucky numbers, sentence 17

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wǔ èr líng (520) sounds a bit like wǒ ài nǐ (I love you), so kids giggle about it, and 20 May is a sweethearts' day online in China; 88 (bābā) means bye-bye.

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**Who acts:** wǔ, I, kids, May, 88 · **What happens:** sound, love, giggle, be, mean · **To what, where:** bit, you, 20 day, China, bye

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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 (wǔ, I, kids, May), 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:17
# text = wǔ èr líng (520) sounds a bit like wǒ ài nǐ (I love you), so kids giggle about it, and 20 May is a sweethearts' day online in China; 88 (bābā) means bye-bye.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	wǔ	wǔ	NUM	CD	_	7	nsubj	_	_
2	èr	èr	NUM	CD	_	1	flat	_	_
3	líng	líng	NUM	CD	_	1	flat	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	520	520	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	wǒ	wǒ	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	flat:foreign	_	_
12	ài	ài	ADV	FW	_	13	flat:foreign	_	_
13	nǐ	nǐ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	giggle	giggle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
27	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
28	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	sweethearts	sweetheart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
34	online	online	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	88	88	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nsubj	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	bābā	bābā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
42	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
43	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	_
45	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | wǔ | a bit |  |  |  | like wǒ ài nǐ | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **giggle** | present | kids |  |  |  |  | about bit | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | May | sweethearts's 20 day |  | China |  | online *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | 88 | bye |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bye=Topic |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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