Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 7

mǐfàn («MEE-fahn») is cooked rice, a bowl each at nearly every meal; lifting the bowl near your mouth is good manners.

Who acts: mǐfàn, lifting · What happens: cook, be, lift · To what, where: cooked rice, meal, bowl, mouth, good manners

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 (mǐfàn, lifting), 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	mǐfàn	mǐfàn	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rice	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 «	punct
3	«	«	X	_	1 mǐfàn	parataxis
4	MEE	mee	X	_	3 «	flat
5	-	-	X	_	6 fahn	compound
6	fahn	fahn	X	_	3 «	flat
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 «	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 «	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rice	cop
10	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 rice	amod
11	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bowl	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bowl	det
14	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rice	appos
15	each	each	ADV	_	14 bowl	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 meal	case
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 every	advmod
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 meal	det
19	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rice	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 manners	punct
21	lifting	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 manners	csubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bowl	det
23	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lifting	obj
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 mouth	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mouth	nmod:poss
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lifting	obl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 manners	cop
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 manners	amod
29	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 rice	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rice	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cook	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	mǐfàn	cooked rice	every meal	tree rules
3	lift	gerund		the bowl	your mouth	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme near mouth=Destination
4	is a	present	lifting	good manners		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:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:7.

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 ×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.

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