Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 15

shuǎlài («SHWIGH-LIGH») means refusing to accept the rules, being a sore loser; it stings more than zuòbì, so use it only when it's true.

Who acts: shuǎlài, le · What happens: mean, refuse, not accept, be, sting, use · To what, where: rules, sore loser, more, le · 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 (shuǎlài, le), 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	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	Foreign=Yes	9 means	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	1 shuǎlài	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 shuǎlài	punct
4	SHWIGH	shwigh	X	_	1 shuǎlài	appos
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 SHWIGH	punct
6	LIGH	ligh	X	_	4 SHWIGH	goeswith
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 LIGH	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 LIGH	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	refusing	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 means	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 accept	mark
12	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 refusing	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rules	det
14	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 accept	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 loser	punct
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 loser	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 loser	det
18	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 loser	amod
19	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refusing	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stings	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stings	nsubj
22	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 stings	obj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 zuòbì	case
25	zuòbì	zuòbì	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 more	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 use	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 use	advmod
28	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 use	obj
30	only	only	ADV	_	34 true	advmod
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 true	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 true	nsubj
33	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 true	cop
34	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 use	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	shuǎlài			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	refuse	gerund				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not accept	to-infinitive		the rules		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
4	is a	gerund		a sore loser		tree rules
5	sting	present	le	more		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer
6	use	infinitive	shuǎlài not said here	le		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	is	present	le		true property	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:15.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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