Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 4
Some days there are jiǎozi (dumplings), miàntiáo (noodles) to slurp, or plain mántou buns; breakfast may be zhōu, a salty rice porridge, nothing like British porridge.
What happens: be, slurp · To what, where: jiǎozi
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 are | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jiǎozi | cop |
| 5 | jiǎozi | jiǎozi | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 dumplings | punct |
| 7 | dumplings | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 jiǎozi | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 dumplings | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 miàntiáo | punct |
| 10 | miàntiáo | miàntiáo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jiǎozi | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 noodles | punct |
| 12 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 miàntiáo | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 noodles | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slurp | mark |
| 15 | slurp | slurp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 jiǎozi | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buns | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 buns | cc |
| 18 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 buns | amod |
| 19 | mántou | mántou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buns | compound |
| 20 | buns | bun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 jiǎozi | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 zhōu | punct |
| 22 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 zhōu | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 zhōu | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 zhōu | cop |
| 25 | zhōu | zhōu | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 jiǎozi | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 porridge | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 porridge | det |
| 28 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 porridge | amod |
| 29 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 porridge | compound |
| 30 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 zhōu | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 zhōu | punct |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 jiǎozi | conj |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 porridge | case |
| 34 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 porridge | amod |
| 35 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nothing | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | jiǎozi and miàntiáo or plain mántou buns | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slurp | to-infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
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