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Study: Movement and Places

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Sentence Number 1

We go work

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Chinese Sentence

我们去上班。

Full Pinyin

wǒ men qù shàng bān

Natural English

We are going to work.

Short Description

A movement sentence whose work token uses the contextual 上班 mapping.

Sentence Pattern

CWB-P004

Level

basic

Sentence Type

Standardized Expression

Standard Status

standard

Sentence Analysis

A movement sentence whose work token uses the contextual 上班 mapping.

Sentence Analysis

The Chinese units are 我们 / 去 / 上班, represented by We / go / work. Go keeps its primary 去 mapping, while work selects the contextual 上班 mapping required after go. Natural English adds are going and to, but those words are not Chinglish semantic tokens here.

Token Mapping

Position Surface Token Chinese Unit Pinyin Linked Word
1 we 我们 wǒ men we
2 go go
3 work 上班 shàng bān work

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