Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 11
tiào shéng («TYOW SHUNG?») is skipping with a rope; tiào (jump) falls, while high tiāo means to pick; tiào píjīn is elastics.
Who acts: tiào shéng, tiào, high tiāo, tiào píjīn · What happens: skip, fall, mean, pick, be · To what, where: elastics
This is a sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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 (tiào shéng, tiào, high tiāo, tiào píjīn), 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 | tiào | tiào | NOUN | _ | 2 shéng | compound |
| 2 | shéng | shéng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skipping | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 SHUNG | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 SHUNG | punct |
| 5 | TYOW | TYOW | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 SHUNG | compound |
| 6 | SHUNG | SHUNG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shéng | appos |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 SHUNG | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 SHUNG | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 SHUNG | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 skipping | aux |
| 11 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 falls | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 rope | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rope | det |
| 14 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skipping | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tiào | punct |
| 16 | tiào | tiào | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 falls | nsubj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 jump | punct |
| 18 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tiào | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 jump | punct |
| 20 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 means | mark |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tiāo | amod |
| 24 | tiāo | tiāo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 falls | advcl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pick | mark |
| 27 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 means | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 elastics | punct |
| 29 | tiào | tiào | NOUN | _ | 30 píjīn | compound |
| 30 | píjīn | píjīn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 elastics | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 elastics | cop |
| 32 | elastics | elastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 falls | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 skipping | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | present · progressive | tiào shéng | with a rope | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | tiào | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | high tiāo | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pick not said to happen | to-infinitive | high tiāo not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | tiào píjīn | elastics | 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:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:11.
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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