Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate, sentence 6

And when Ming's nǎinai asks chī le ma? (have you eaten?), she is not offering dinner — it is an old-style hello, like «all right?».

Who acts: Ming, you, dinner · What happens: ask, eat, not offer, be · To what, where: dinner, old style

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 (Ming, you, dinner), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 offering	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 asks	advmod
3	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 asks	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ming	case
5	nǎinai	nǎinai	X	Foreign=Yes	3 Ming	dep
6	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 offering	advcl
7	chī	chī	ADP	_	9 ma	case
8	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ma	compound
9	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	nsubj
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 offering	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 offering	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 offering	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 offering	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 offering	advmod
21	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 offering	obj
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 style	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 style	cop
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 style	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 style	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 old	punct
29	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 offering	parataxis
30	hello	hello	INTJ	_	29 style	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 like	punct
32	like	like	INTJ	_	14 eaten	discourse
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 right	punct
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 right	det
35	right	right	ADV	_	32 like	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 right	punct
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 right	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 offering	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Ming		chī le ma	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present · perfect	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not offer	present · progressive	Ming	dinner		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme
4	is a	present	dinner	a old style		tree rules

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:6.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/6/