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title: So èrshí is 20, but shí'èr is 12 — swap them in a shop and you pay t… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: So èrshí is 20, but shí'èr is 12 — swap them in a shop and you pay the wrong price. Who acts: èrshí, shí'èr, you. 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 4

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So èrshí is 20, but shí'èr is 12 — swap them in a shop and you pay the wrong price.

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**Who acts:** èrshí, shí'èr, you · **What happens:** be, swap, pay · **To what, where:** 20, 12, numbers, shop, wrong price

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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 (èrshí, shí'èr, you), 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:4
# text = So èrshí is 20, but shí'èr is 12 — swap them in a shop and you pay the wrong price.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	èrshí	èrshí	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	shí'èr	shí'èr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
11	swap	swap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | èrshí | 20 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | shí'èr | 12 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swap** | infinitive |  | numbers *= number* |  | a shop |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | present | you | the wrong price |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |

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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:4`.

**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 ×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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