Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 12
"nánguò" means sad, literally "hard to get through"; it is the right word for a dead pet or a sick granny, and the kind answer is "zěnme le?".
Who acts: nánguò, answer, kind answer · What happens: mean, get through, be · To what, where: right word, zěnme le · 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 (nánguò, answer, kind answer), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 nánguò | punct |
| 2 | nánguò | nánguò | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 nánguò | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 7 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 9 hard | advmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sad | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | xcomp |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 get | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 word | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 word | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 word | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 word | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 word | amod |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 pet | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pet | det |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pet | amod |
| 23 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | nmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 granny | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 granny | det |
| 26 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 granny | amod |
| 27 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pet | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 le | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 le | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 answer | det |
| 31 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 answer | amod |
| 32 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 le | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 le | cop |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 le | punct |
| 35 | zěnme | zěnme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 le | amod |
| 36 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 word | appos |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 le | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 le | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | nánguò | sad property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get through in a quote | to-infinitive | nánguò not said here | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | answer | the right word | for a dead pet or a sick granny | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the kind answer | zěnme le | 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:016-happy-angry-bored-scared.lesson:12.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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