Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 4

When Lín looks sad, the kind thing is "zěnme le?" — what's up? — and when he's cross, "bié shēngqì", don't be cross.

Who acts: Lín, kind thing, cross · What happens: look, be, bié, do, not be · To what, where: zěnme le, shēngqì · 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 (Lín, kind thing, cross), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 looks	advmod
2	Lín	Lín	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 le	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 le	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 le	punct
11	zěnme	zěnme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 le	amod
12	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 up	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 up	cop
18	up	up	ADV	_	3 looks	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cross	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 cross	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cross	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cross	cop
25	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bié	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cross	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 cross	punct
28	bié	bié	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	parataxis
29	shēngqì	shēngqì	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bié	obj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 shēngqì	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
32	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	parataxis
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 cross	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 cross	cop
35	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 do	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	Lín		sad property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the kind thing	zěnme le		tree rules
3	is	present			up property	tree rules
4	is	present	Lín		cross property	tree rules
5	bié in a quote	infinitive	cross	shēngqì		tree rules
6	do	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not is	infinitive			cross property	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:4.

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): 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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