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title: líng («ling?», rising) is zero, used in scores like líng bǐ sān (nil… — Counting to 100 and lucky numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: líng («ling?», rising) is zero, used in scores like líng bǐ sān (nil-three) and inside numbers like yìbǎi líng wǔ (105). Who acts: líng, numbers. 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 pragma
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# Counting to 100 and lucky numbers, sentence 8

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líng («ling?», rising) is zero, used in scores like líng bǐ sān (nil-three) and inside numbers like yìbǎi líng wǔ (105).

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**Who acts:** líng, numbers · **What happens:** be, use, líng · **To what, where:** numbers, scores, bǐ sān, wǔ

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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 (líng, numbers), 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:8
# text = líng («ling?», rising) is zero, used in scores like líng bǐ sān (nil-three) and inside numbers like yìbǎi líng wǔ (105).
# 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 ×1
1	líng	líng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ling	ling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rising	rising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	zero	zero	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	scores	score	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	líng	líng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	bǐ	bǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	sān	sān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	nil	nil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
28	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	yìbǎi	yìbǎi	ADV	FW	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	líng	líng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
31	wǔ	wǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	105	105	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	appos	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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** | present | líng and nil |  |  |  |  | zero *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle | líng and nil *not said here* | numbers |  | scores |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **líng** | gerund | líng and nil *not said here* | bǐ sān |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **líng** | gerund | numbers *not said here* | wǔ |  |  |  | yìbǎi *property* | 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:8`.

**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 ×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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