Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!, sentence 6
If Ming's family is from Sichuan or Hunan, the chilli may get you: «tài là le!» (too spicy!), and someone hands you rè shuǐ, warm water — many families think ice-cold drinks are bad for the tummy.
Who acts: family, chilli, someone, many families, cold drinks · What happens: be, get, hand, think · To what, where: Sichuan, you, rè shuǐ · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (family, chilli, someone, many families), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 is | mark |
| 2 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 family | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ming | case |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Sichuan | case |
| 7 | Sichuan | Sichuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 is | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 Hunan | cc |
| 9 | Hunan | Hunan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sichuan | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chilli | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chilli | det |
| 12 | chilli | chilli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 le | punct |
| 18 | tài | tài | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 le | dep |
| 19 | là | là | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 le | amod |
| 20 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 le | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 le | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 spicy | punct |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 spicy | advmod |
| 25 | spicy | spicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 le | parataxis |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 spicy | punct |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 spicy | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hands | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hands | cc |
| 30 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 hands | nsubj |
| 31 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 hands | iobj |
| 33 | rè | rè | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 shuǐ | compound |
| 34 | shuǐ | shuǐ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hands | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 water | punct |
| 36 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 water | amod |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shuǐ | nmod |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 think | punct |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 families | amod |
| 40 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 think | nsubj |
| 41 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | conj |
| 42 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cold | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 ice | punct |
| 44 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 drinks | amod |
| 45 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 bad | nsubj |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 bad | cop |
| 47 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 think | ccomp |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 tummy | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 tummy | det |
| 50 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 bad | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | Ming's family | Sichuan or Hunan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | may | the chilli | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hand | present | someone | rè shuǐ warm water | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination shuǐ=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | many families | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | cold drinks | for the tummy; bad property | 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: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, 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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