Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 16

"tǎoyàn!" said laughing when teased means "stop it, you!"; said coldly about a person it really means "I can't stand you".

Who acts: tǎoyàn, it, bù xǐhuan · What happens: say, laugh, tease, mean, stop, not stand · To what, where: you, nǐ, person · 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 (tǎoyàn, it, bù xǐhuan), 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 tǎoyàn	punct
2	tǎoyàn	tǎoyàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 tǎoyàn	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tǎoyàn	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 teased	advmod
8	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 laughing	advcl
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 means	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 you	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 you	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
19	coldly	coldly	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 person	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 person	det
22	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 means	nsubj
24	really	really	ADV	_	25 means	advmod
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 person	acl:relcl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 stand	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 stand	nsubj
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stand	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 stand	advmod
30	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	ccomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 stand	obj
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 stand	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	tǎoyàn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	laugh	gerund	tǎoyàn not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tease	participle	tǎoyàn not said here			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present		you		tree rules
5	stop in a quote	infinitive		nǐ		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	past			about a person; coldly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	mean	present	it	a person not said here		tree rules
8	not stand in a quote	can	bù xǐhuan = xǐhuan	you		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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:16.

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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