School words, sentence 17
wǒ bù zhīdào («waw boo JR-dow») means I don't know; to a teacher, adding duìbuqǐ makes it softer.
Who acts: waw boo, I, adding · What happens: mean, not know, add, make · To what, where: duìbuqǐ, boo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «School words» 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 (waw boo, I, adding), 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 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 zhīdào | compound |
| 2 | bù | bù | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 3 zhīdào | advmod |
| 3 | zhīdào | zhīdào | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 means | csubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 boo | punct |
| 6 | waw | waw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boo | compound |
| 7 | boo | boo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 8 | JR | jr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dow | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dow | punct |
| 10 | dow | dow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boo | compound |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 boo | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 teacher | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 teacher | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 teacher | det |
| 21 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 makes | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 adding | punct |
| 23 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 makes | csubj |
| 24 | duìbuqǐ | duìbuqǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 adding | obj |
| 25 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 makes | obj |
| 27 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 makes | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | waw boo | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | gerund | duìbuqǐ | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duìbuqǐ=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | present | adding | boo | to a teacher; soft property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:015-school-words.lesson:17.
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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