In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 13
kuài pǎo («KWIGH POW») means run!; pǎo (run) dips, while falling pào is a bubble or a cannon.
Who acts: kuài, pào · What happens: mean, run, fall, be · To what, where: pǎo, bubble
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: who acts (kuài, pào), 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 | kuài | kuài | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 means | nsubj |
| 2 | pǎo | pǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 kuài | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 » | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 » | punct |
| 5 | KWIGH | KWIGH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 POW | compound |
| 6 | POW | pow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 » | compound |
| 7 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 kuài | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 » | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 pǎo | punct |
| 13 | pǎo | pǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 means | obj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 15 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pǎo | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 17 | dips | dip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 means | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 falling | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 falling | mark |
| 20 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 means | conj |
| 21 | pào | pào | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 bubble | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bubble | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bubble | det |
| 24 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 falling | parataxis |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 cannon | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cannon | det |
| 27 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bubble | conj |
| 28 | . | . | 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 | kuài | pǎo | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pǎo=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run | present | kuài not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | kuài not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | pào | a bubble or a cannon | 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:013-in-the-playground.lesson:13.
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 ×2, 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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