Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 10
miàntiáo («MYEN-tyow?») are noodles; slurping is fine, and on birthdays long noodles are not cut, because they mean long life.
Who acts: miàntiáo, slurping, noodles · What happens: be, not cut, mean · To what, where: noodles, long noodles, birthdays, long life
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» 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 (miàntiáo, slurping, noodles), 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 | miàntiáo | miàntiáo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 noodles | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 tyow | punct |
| 3 | « | « | CCONJ | _ | 6 tyow | cc |
| 4 | MYEN | MYEN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tyow | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tyow | punct |
| 6 | tyow | tyow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 miàntiáo | appos |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 8 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 miàntiáo | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 noodles | cop |
| 11 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fine | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fine | punct |
| 13 | slurping | slurp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fine | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fine | cop |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cut | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cut | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 birthdays | case |
| 19 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cut | obl |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 noodles | amod |
| 21 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cut | aux:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 cut | advmod |
| 24 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fine | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mean | punct |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 mean | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 mean | nsubj |
| 28 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cut | advcl |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 life | amod |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mean | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 noodles | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | miàntiáo | noodles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | slurping | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not cut | present · passive | long noodles | birthdays | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | noodles = noodle | long life | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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