Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 0
Your friend Lín bursts out of school shouting "jīntiān hǎo kāixīn!" — "today was so much fun!" — and you hear "KIGH-shin", which means happy, literally "open heart".
Who acts: friend, today, you, KIGH shin · What happens: burst out, shout, be, hear, mean · To what, where: school, much fun, KIGH shin, happy open heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Happy, angry, bored, scared» 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 (friend, today, you, KIGH shin), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bursts | nsubj |
| 3 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | appos |
| 4 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 shouting | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 shouting | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouting | obl |
| 8 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 bursts | advcl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shouting | punct |
| 10 | jīntiān | jīntiān | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 8 shouting | obj |
| 11 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 jīntiān | flat:foreign |
| 12 | kāixīn | kāixīn | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 jīntiān | flat:foreign |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 bursts | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bursts | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bursts | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fun | punct |
| 17 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fun | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fun | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fun | amod |
| 21 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bursts | ccomp |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 fun | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fun | punct |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 hear | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hear | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 hear | nsubj |
| 27 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bursts | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 shin | punct |
| 29 | KIGH | KIGH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 shin | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 shin | punct |
| 31 | shin | shin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hear | obj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 shin | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 means | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 means | nsubj |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 shin | acl:relcl |
| 36 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 heart | amod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 heart | punct |
| 38 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 41 heart | advmod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 heart | punct |
| 40 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 heart | amod |
| 41 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | obj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 heart | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bursts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | present | Your friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | Your friend not said here | school | out property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jīntiān=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | today | much fun | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | you | KIGH shin | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shin=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | KIGH shin | happy open heart | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Topic |
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:016-happy-angry-bored-scared.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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.
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