Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 14
"xǐhuan" means to like: "wǒ xǐhuan nǐ de gǒu" is "I like your dog"; but "wǒ xǐhuan nǐ" between schoolkids sounds like a crush, so to a friend say "nǐ shì wǒ de hǎo péngyou".
Who acts: boys · What happens: mean, like, be, sound, say · To what, where: dog, nǐ, friend · 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 (boys), 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 xǐhuan | punct |
| 2 | xǐhuan | xǐhuan | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 means | advcl |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 xǐhuan | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 like | mark |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 wǒ | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wǒ | punct |
| 9 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 means | conj |
| 10 | xǐhuan | xǐhuan | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 nǐ | amod |
| 11 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 wǒ | obj |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 nǐ | nmod |
| 13 | gǒu | gǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 wǒ | dep |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 is | parataxis |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dog | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 like | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 wǒ | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 wǒ | cc |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wǒ | punct |
| 25 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 sounds | ccomp |
| 26 | xǐhuan | xǐhuan | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 nǐ | amod |
| 27 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 wǒ | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 nǐ | punct |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 schoolkids | case |
| 30 | schoolkids | schoolkid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wǒ | obl |
| 31 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 crush | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 crush | det |
| 34 | crush | crush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sounds | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 say | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 say | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 friend | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 friend | det |
| 39 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 say | obl |
| 40 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 sounds | parataxis |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 say | punct |
| 42 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 40 say | obj |
| 43 | shì | shì | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 nǐ | flat |
| 44 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 nǐ | flat |
| 45 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 nǐ | flat |
| 46 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 nǐ | flat |
| 47 | péngyou | péngyou | X | Foreign=Yes | 42 nǐ | flat |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 nǐ | punct |
| 49 | . | . | 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 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | like not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | be | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | like in a quote | present | boys = boy | your dog | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sound | present | like a crush | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | infinitive | nǐ | a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nǐ=Topic to friend=Recipient |
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:14.
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, 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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