Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 5

And the kuàizi (chopsticks) have their own rules: never stand them upright in the rice, never point them at people, never drum on the bowl.

Who acts: kuàizi, own rules, chopsticks · What happens: have, not stand, not point, not drum, rule · To what, where: own rules, rules, rice

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 (kuàizi, own rules, chopsticks), 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	_	7 have	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kuàizi	det
3	kuàizi	kuàizi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 chopsticks	punct
5	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kuàizi	appos
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 chopsticks	punct
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rules	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rules	amod
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 stand	advmod
13	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stand	obj
15	upright	upright	ADV	_	13 stand	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 rice	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rice	det
18	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stand	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 point	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 point	advmod
21	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stand	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 point	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 people	case
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 point	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drum	punct
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 drum	advmod
27	drum	drum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 point	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 bowl	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bowl	det
30	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drum	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the kuàizi	chopsticks's own rules			tree rules
2	not stand	infinitive	chopsticks's own rules not said here	rules = rule	the rice	upright property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rice=Destination
3	not point	infinitive	chopsticks's own rules not said here	rules = rule		at people	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	not drum	infinitive	chopsticks's own rules not said here			on the bowl	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on bowl=Patient
5	rule		chopsticks = chopstick				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:5.

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, 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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