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Study: Basic Subjects and Actions

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Sentence Number 1

He eat rice

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Chinese Sentence

他吃米饭。

Full Pinyin

tā chī mǐ fàn

Natural English

He eats rice.

Short Description

A simple subject-action-object sentence with a Food object.

Sentence Pattern

CWB-P004

Level

basic

Sentence Type

Standardized Expression

Standard Status

standard

Sentence Analysis

A simple subject-action-object sentence with a Food object.

Sentence Analysis

The semantic sequence 他 / 吃 / 米饭 maps directly to He / eat / rice. Rice satisfies the Food restriction on the eat profile. Natural English adds third-person -s to eats, while the Chinglish token remains the canonical base form eat.

Token Mapping

Position Surface Token Chinese Unit Pinyin Linked Word
1 he he
2 eat chī eat
3 rice 米饭 mǐ fàn rice

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