--- title: Mandarin puts a measure word between a number and a noun: "两本书" (liǎ… — Mandarin compared with English · tree and pragmatics description: Mandarin puts a measure word between a number and a noun: "两本书" (liǎng běn shū), two books, uses "本" for books; English does something similar in "two pieces of paper" or "a loaf of bread". Who acts: Mandarin, English. 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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 (Mandarin, English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:034-mandarin-compared-with-english.lesson:9 # text = Mandarin puts a measure word between a number and a noun: "两本书" (liǎng běn shū), two books, uses "本" for books; English does something similar in "two pieces of paper" or "a loaf of bread". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 034-mandarin-compared-with-english.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mandarin Mandarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 两本书 两本书 X FW _ 2 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 liǎng liǎng X FW _ 2 parataxis _ _ 18 běn běn X FW _ 19 amod _ _ 19 shū shū NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 本 本 NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 34 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 obj _ _ 35 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 loaf loaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:conj 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | present | Mandarin | a measure word | | a number and a noun | | two books *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme between number=Destination | | 2 | **use** | present | Mandarin *not said here* | 本 | | | | for books | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent 本=Theme for book=Eventuality | | 3 | **do** | present | English | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | 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:language:034-mandarin-compared-with-english.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Mandarin compared with English, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/8/) - next →: [Mandarin compared with English, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/34-mandarin-compared-with-english/)