Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 3
Some feelings bite if you aim them at a person: "hǎo wúliáo" is "I'm so bored", but "nǐ zhēn wúliáo" is "you're so boring"; and "tǎoyàn!" said laughing is "stop it, you!", said coldly it is real dislike.
Who acts: feelings, you, hǎo, nǐ, tǎoyàn · What happens: bite, aim, be, say, laugh, stop · To what, where: Feelings, tǎoyàn, real dislike · 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 (feelings, you, hǎo, nǐ), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 feelings | det |
| 2 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 aim | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 aim | nsubj |
| 6 | aim | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bite | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 aim | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 person | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aim | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hǎo | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hǎo | punct |
| 13 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 bored | nsubj |
| 14 | wúliáo | wúliáo | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 hǎo | flat |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wúliáo | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bored | cop |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 bored | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bored | nsubj |
| 19 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bored | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 bored | advmod |
| 21 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | parataxis |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 bored | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 boring | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 boring | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 nǐ | punct |
| 26 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 boring | nsubj |
| 27 | zhēn | zhēn | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 nǐ | flat |
| 28 | wúliáo | wúliáo | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 nǐ | flat |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 boring | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 boring | cop |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 boring | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 boring | nsubj |
| 33 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 boring | cop |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 boring | advmod |
| 35 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bite | conj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 boring | punct |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 said | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 said | cc |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 tǎoyàn | punct |
| 40 | tǎoyàn | tǎoyàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 said | nsubj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 tǎoyàn | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 tǎoyàn | punct |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bite | conj |
| 44 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 said | xcomp |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 laughing | aux |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 stop | punct |
| 47 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 laughing | advcl |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 stop | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 you | punct |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 54 said | nsubj |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 50 you | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 you | punct |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 you | punct |
| 54 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 said | ccomp |
| 55 | coldly | coldly | ADV | _ | 54 said | advmod |
| 56 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 dislike | nsubj |
| 57 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 dislike | cop |
| 58 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 dislike | amod |
| 59 | dislike | dislike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 said | ccomp |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | some feelings | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | aim a condition, not said to happen | present | you | Feelings = feeling | at a person | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | hǎo | bored property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | nǐ | boring property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | tǎoyàn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | laugh | present · progressive | tǎoyàn not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | stop in a quote | infinitive | tǎoyàn not said here | tǎoyàn | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | coldly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is a | present | tǎoyàn | real dislike | 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:3.
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 ×3. 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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