--- title: Numbers also make jokes and wishes: 520 (wǔ èr líng) sounds a bit li… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics description: Numbers also make jokes and wishes: 520 (wǔ èr líng) sounds a bit like «I love you», 88 (bābā) is «bye-bye», and 99 sounds like «for ever and ever». Who acts: Numbers, 520, number, 88. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Numbers, 520, number, 88), 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:5 # text = Numbers also make jokes and wishes: 520 (wǔ èr líng) sounds a bit like «I love you», 88 (bābā) is «bye-bye», and 99 sounds like «for ever and ever». # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 8 520 520 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nsubj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 10 wǔ wǔ ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 èr èr ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod 12 líng líng NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 88 88 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nsubj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 bābā bābā NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 bye bye ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 32 bye bye ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 99 99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nummod 37 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advcl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 41 conj _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Numbers | jokes and wishes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product | | 2 | **sound** | present | 520 | a bit | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | a number before shí and a number *= number* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | 88 | | | | | bye *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** | present | 99 | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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:5`. **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 ×4, 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. 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