Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 13

nǐ shū le («nee SHOO luh») means you lost; shū (lose) sounds just like shū (book), so some families avoid giving books at New Year.

Who acts: shū le, you, shū, families · What happens: nǐ, mean, lose, sound, avoid, give · To what, where: books · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shū le, you, shū, families), 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	nǐ	nǐ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	csubj
2	shū	shū	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 le	amod
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 SHOO	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 SHOO	punct
6	nee	nee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 SHOO	amod
7	SHOO	SHOO	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 le	appos
8	luh	luh	INTJ	_	7 SHOO	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 SHOO	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 SHOO	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 lost	nsubj
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 means	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 shū	punct
15	shū	shū	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sounds	nsubj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 lose	punct
17	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 shū	parataxis
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 lose	punct
19	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
20	just	just	ADV	_	22 shū	advmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 shū	case
22	shū	shū	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sounds	obl
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 book	punct
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shū	appos
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 book	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 avoid	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 avoid	advmod
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 families	det
29	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 avoid	nsubj
30	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sounds	parataxis
31	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 avoid	xcomp
32	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 giving	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 Year	case
34	New	New	PROPN	_	35 Year	amod
35	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 giving	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	nǐ	infinitive					tree rules
2	mean	present	shū le				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	past	you				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lose	infinitive					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sound	present	shū			like shū	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	avoid	present	some families				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	give	gerund	some families not said here	books	at New Year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent book=Theme at year=Asset

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: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): no change. 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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