Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 4

And lǎoyīng zhuō xiǎojī (eagle catches the chicks) has a hen guarding a wobbly line of chicks from the eagle — play it on grass, because the wobbly line often tumbles over.

Who acts: eagle, lǎoyīng, hen, wobbly line · What happens: catch, have, guard, play, tumble over · To what, where: chicks, hen, wobbly line, eagle, grass

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 (eagle, lǎoyīng, hen, wobbly line), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 has	cc
2	lǎoyīng	lǎoyīng	PROPN	_	11 has	nsubj
3	zhuō	zhuō	PROPN	_	2 lǎoyīng	flat
4	xiǎojī	xiǎojī	PROPN	_	2 lǎoyīng	flat
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 catches	punct
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	nsubj
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lǎoyīng	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chicks	det
9	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 catches	obj
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 catches	punct
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hen	det
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
14	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hen	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 line	det
16	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 line	amod
17	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guarding	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 chicks	case
19	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 line	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 eagle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eagle	det
22	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chicks	nmod
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 play	punct
24	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 has	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 play	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 grass	case
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 play	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 play	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 tumbles	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 line	det
31	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 line	amod
32	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tumbles	nsubj
33	often	often	ADV	_	34 tumbles	advmod
34	tumbles	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 play	advcl
35	over	over	ADV	_	34 tumbles	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	present	eagle	the chicks			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme
2	have	present	lǎoyīng	a hen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient
3	guard	gerund	a hen not said here	a wobbly line of chicks from the eagle			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Beneficiary
4	play	infinitive		eagle	grass		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	tumble over	present	the wobbly line			often, over property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: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): 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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