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Study: Objects and Daily Activities

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Sentence Number 4

They sometimes eat rice

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Chinese Sentence

他们有时候吃米饭。

Full Pinyin

tā men yǒu shí hou chī mǐ fàn

Natural English

They sometimes eat rice.

Short Description

An occasional-frequency eating sentence.

Sentence Pattern

CWB-P009

Level

basic

Sentence Type

Standardized Expression

Standard Status

standard

Sentence Analysis

An occasional-frequency eating sentence.

Sentence Analysis

他们 / 有时候 / 吃 / 米饭 maps in place to They / sometimes / eat / rice. Rice is Food and therefore valid for eat's enabled object restriction.

Token Mapping

Position Surface Token Chinese Unit Pinyin Linked Word
1 they 他们 tā men they
2 sometimes 有时候 yǒu shí hou sometimes
3 eat chī eat
4 rice 米饭 mǐ fàn rice

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