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title: Prices in Chinese shops often end in 8 or 9 for luck, not only for m… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: Prices in Chinese shops often end in 8 or 9 for luck, not only for marketing. Who acts: Prices. 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 every clause.
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# Counting to 100 and lucky numbers, sentence 18

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Prices in Chinese shops often end in 8 or 9 for luck, not only for marketing.

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**Who acts:** Prices · **What happens:** end · **To what, where:** 8

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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 (Prices), 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:18
# text = Prices in Chinese shops often end in 8 or 9 for luck, not only for marketing.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	marketing	marketing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **end** | present | Prices in Chinese shops |  |  | 8 |  | for luck and marketing; often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:18`.

**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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