In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 4
In tag the catcher yells «zhuā zhù le!» (got you!), on sports day every Chinese parent roars «jiāyóu!» (come on! literally «add oil»), and from the edge of the game a shy voice says «wǒ yě yào wánr» (I want to play too).
Who acts: catcher, », Chinese parent, shy voice, I · What happens: yell, get, roar, come on, add, say · To what, where: tag, you, jiāyóu, oil, edge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (catcher, », Chinese parent, shy voice), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 tag | case |
| 2 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yells | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 catcher | det |
| 4 | catcher | catcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yells | nsubj |
| 5 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 zhuā | punct |
| 7 | zhuā | zhuā | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yells | conj |
| 8 | zhù | zhù | ADP | _ | 9 le | case |
| 9 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 zhuā | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 tag | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yells | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 got | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 day | compound |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 parent | det |
| 22 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 parent | amod |
| 23 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roars | nsubj |
| 24 | roars | roar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 day | nmod |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 jiāyóu | punct |
| 26 | jiāyóu | jiāyóu | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 24 roars | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 jiāyóu | punct |
| 28 | » | » | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 come | nsubj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 yells | parataxis |
| 31 | on | on | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 33 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 35 add | advmod |
| 34 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 35 add | punct |
| 35 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | parataxis |
| 36 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 add | obj |
| 37 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 add | obj |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 says | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 says | cc |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 edge | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 edge | det |
| 43 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 says | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 game | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 game | det |
| 46 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 edge | nmod |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 voice | det |
| 48 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 voice | amod |
| 49 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 says | nsubj |
| 50 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | parataxis |
| 51 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 55 wánr | punct |
| 52 | wǒ | wǒ | SCONJ | _ | 55 wánr | mark |
| 53 | yě | yě | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 wánr | nsubj |
| 54 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 55 wánr | cc |
| 55 | wánr | wán | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 50 says | xcomp |
| 56 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 wánr | flat |
| 57 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 59 want | punct |
| 58 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 want | nsubj |
| 59 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 wánr | advcl |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 play | mark |
| 61 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 want | xcomp |
| 62 | too | too | ADV | _ | 61 play | advmod |
| 63 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 59 want | punct |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | present | the catcher | tag | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | » | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | roar | every Chinese parent | jiāyóu | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come on | infinitive | » | day | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | oil | literally property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | a shy voice | the edge of the game | wán property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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