Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!, sentence 11
tián («tyen?», rising) means sweet; tiān, high and level, is sky or day.
Who acts: tián · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: sweet tiān, sky
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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 (tián), 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 | tián | tián | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 tyen | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 tyen | punct |
| 4 | tyen | tyen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 tián | appos |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tyen | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 tyen | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rising | punct |
| 8 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tyen | conj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 tyen | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tiān | amod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sweet | punct |
| 13 | tiān | tiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 high | punct |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tiān | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 level | cc |
| 17 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tiān | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sky | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sky | cop |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 day | cc |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sky | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | tián | sweet tiān and level | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiān=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | tián not said here | sky or day | 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:012-tasty-spicy-im-full.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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