Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate, sentence 19
nǎr (where?) dips and nàr (there) falls; only the tone tells the two apart.
Who acts: nǎr, nàr, tone · What happens: dip, fall, tell · To what, where: two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nǎr, nàr, tone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nǎr | nǎr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dips | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 1 nǎr | appos |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 6 | dips | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tells | parataxis |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 falls | cc |
| 8 | nàr | nàr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falls | nsubj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 nàr | punct |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 nàr | advmod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 12 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dips | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 tells | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 tone | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tone | det |
| 16 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tells | nsubj |
| 17 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 two | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 tells | obj |
| 20 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 17 tells | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | present | nǎr | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | present | nàr | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | the tone | the two | apart property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent two=Recipient |
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, 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:chinese-street:001-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate.lesson:19.
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): R7-rel-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.
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