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Study: Movement and Places

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Sentence Number 2

They go school

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Chinese Sentence

他们去学校。

Full Pinyin

tā men qù xué xiào

Natural English

They are going to school.

Short Description

A basic movement-to-place sentence.

Sentence Pattern

CWB-P004

Level

basic

Sentence Type

Standardized Expression

Standard Status

standard

Sentence Analysis

A basic movement-to-place sentence.

Sentence Analysis

Chinese semantic order 他们 / 去 / 学校 maps to They / go / school without reordering. School is a valid Place target for the primary go profile. Natural English commonly inserts are going and to; these grammatical additions do not create Chinglish tokens.

Token Mapping

Position Surface Token Chinese Unit Pinyin Linked Word
1 they 他们 tā men they
2 go go
3 school 学校 xué xiào school

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