Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 9
mántou («MAHN?-toe») is a plain steamed bun with no filling; with a filling it is a bāozi.
Who acts: mántou, filling · What happens: steam, be · To what, where: plain steamed bun, bāozi
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 (mántou, filling), 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 | mántou | mántou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 steamed | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 toe | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 toe | punct |
| 4 | MAHN | MAHN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 toe | compound |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 MAHN | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 MAHN | punct |
| 7 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 mántou | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 toe | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 toe | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bun | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bun | det |
| 12 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bun | amod |
| 13 | steamed | steam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bun | amod |
| 14 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 filling | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 filling | det |
| 17 | filling | filling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bun | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 bāozi | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 filling | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 filling | det |
| 21 | filling | filling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bāozi | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bāozi | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bāozi | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bāozi | det |
| 25 | bāozi | bāozi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bun | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steam | participle | mántou | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a plain steamed bun | with no filling | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | filling | a bāozi | with a filling | 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:9.
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, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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