Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!, sentence 9
hǎo hē («HOW HUH») means tasty, for drinks, and soup is often praised the same way, because you drink it; hē (drink) is high, while rising hé means «and» or river.
Who acts: hǎo, you, hē, hé · What happens: mean, praise, drink, be, rise · To what, where: tasty drinks, soup, and
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 (hǎo, you, hē, hé), 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 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 means | nsubj |
| 2 | hē | hē | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 hǎo | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 HUH | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 HUH | punct |
| 5 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 HUH | advmod |
| 6 | HUH | huh | INTJ | _ | 9 means | discourse |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 HUH | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 HUH | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drinks | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drinks | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 drinks | case |
| 13 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 means | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 praised | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 praised | cc |
| 16 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 praised | aux:pass |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 praised | advmod |
| 19 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 means | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 praised | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drink | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 drink | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 drink | nsubj |
| 26 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 praised | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drink | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 high | punct |
| 29 | hē | hē | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 high | nsubj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 drink | punct |
| 31 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hē | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 drink | punct |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 high | cop |
| 34 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rising | punct |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 means | mark |
| 37 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 means | advcl |
| 38 | hé | hé | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 means | nsubj |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 high | advcl |
| 40 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 and | punct |
| 41 | and | and | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | obj |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 and | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 river | cc |
| 44 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 and | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | hǎo | tasty drinks | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Topic | ||||
| 2 | praise | present · passive | soup | the same way obl; often property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink | present | you | soup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | hē | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | hé not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | hé | and or river | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent and=Topic |
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.
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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 ×1, R7-rel-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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