Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 6

chī fàn le («CHR FAHN luh») means dinner's ready; fàn means rice and also meal, and the answer is lái le! (coming!).

Who acts: you, CHR FAHN, dinner, fàn, answer · What happens: chī, mean, be, come · To what, where: fàn le, rice, lái le · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, CHR FAHN, dinner, fàn), 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	chī	chī	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fàn	fàn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 le	amod
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chī	obj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 FAHN	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 FAHN	punct
6	CHR	CHR	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 FAHN	compound
7	FAHN	FAHN	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
8	luh	luh	INTJ	_	9 »	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 FAHN	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 FAHN	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 le	acl:relcl
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ready	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	cop
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct
16	fàn	fàn	X	Foreign=Yes	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	conj
18	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 meal	cc
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 meal	advmod
21	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rice	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 le	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 le	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 answer	det
25	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 le	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 le	cop
27	lái	lái	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 le	amod
28	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rice	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 rice	punct
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 coming	punct
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 means	parataxis
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 coming	punct
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 coming	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chī	imperative	you not said here	fàn le		tree rules
2	mean	present	CHR FAHN	fàn le not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=Topic
3	is	present	dinner		ready property	tree rules
4	mean	present	fàn	rice and meal and lái le		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Topic
5	is a	present	the answer	lái le		tree rules
6	come	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): R6-punct-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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