In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 12
děng yíxià («DUNG ee-SHYAH») means wait a moment.
What happens: děng, mean, wait · To what, where: yíxià
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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: 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 | děng | děng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | yíxià | yíxià | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 děng | obj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 ee | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ee | punct |
| 5 | DUNG | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ee | compound |
| 6 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 děng | parataxis |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 SHYAH | punct |
| 8 | SHYAH | SHYAH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ee | appos |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 SHYAH | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 ee | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 děng | parataxis |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wait | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | děng | gerund | yíxià | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | wait not said to happen | infinitive | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:013-in-the-playground.lesson:12.
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. 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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