Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 3

Many games are ones you already know under other names: zhuō mícáng is hide and seek; «yī èr sān mùtourén!» (one, two, three, wooden man!) is Grandma's footsteps; tiào shéng is skipping.

Who acts: Many games, you, zhuō mícáng, ones, tiào shéng · What happens: be, know, seek, yī, skip · To what, where: ones, other names, hide, èr sān mùtourén, footsteps

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 (Many games, you, zhuō mícáng, ones), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 games	amod
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ones	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ones	cop
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ones	acl:relcl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 names	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 names	amod
10	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 know	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 hide	punct
12	zhuō	zhuō	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mícáng	compound
13	mícáng	mícáng	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hide	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hide	cop
15	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 names	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seek	cc
17	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hide	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 yī	punct
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 yī	punct
20	yī	yī	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ones	acl:relcl
21	èr	èr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mùtourén	amod
22	sān	sān	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mùtourén	compound
23	mùtourén	mùtourén	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 yī	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 yī	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 yī	punct
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 mùtourén	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 two	punct
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 three	punct
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
33	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mùtourén	appos
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 ones	punct
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 footsteps	cop
38	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 footsteps	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 Grandma	case
40	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ones	parataxis
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 skipping	punct
42	tiào	tiào	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shéng	compound
43	shéng	shéng	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 skipping	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 skipping	aux
45	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 footsteps	parataxis
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ones	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Many games	ones		tree rules
2	know	present	you	ones not said here	other names	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	is a	present	zhuō mícáng	hide		tree rules
4	seek	infinitive	zhuō mícáng not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	yī in a quote	past	ones not said here	èr sān mùtourén		tree rules
6	is a	present		Grandma's footsteps		tree rules
7	skip	present · progressive	tiào shéng			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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