Happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 6
"gāoxìng" means glad or pleased and is a little more grown-up; "rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng" means "nice to meet you", and "tā bù gāoxìng le" means "he's sulking".
Who acts: gāoxìng, rènshi, le · What happens: mean, be, grow up, meet, tā, gāoxìng · To what, where: you · 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 (gāoxìng, rènshi, le), 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 gāoxìng | punct |
| 2 | gāoxìng | gāoxìng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gāoxìng | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleased | cc |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glad | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 little | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 little | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glad | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 grown | advmod |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 little | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grown | compound:prt |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 rènshi | punct |
| 18 | rènshi | rènshi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | nsubj |
| 19 | nǐ | nǐ | CCONJ | _ | 21 gāoxìng | cc |
| 20 | hěn | hěn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gāoxìng | compound |
| 21 | gāoxìng | gāoxìng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rènshi | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 gāoxìng | punct |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 nice | punct |
| 25 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 means | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 meet | mark |
| 27 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 nice | xcomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 meet | obj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 nice | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tā | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tā | cc |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 tā | punct |
| 33 | tā | tā | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 34 | bù | bù | SCONJ | _ | 35 gāoxìng | mark |
| 35 | gāoxìng | gāoxìng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 tā | advcl |
| 36 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 means | nsubj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 le | punct |
| 38 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 gāoxìng | ccomp |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 sulking | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sulking | nsubj |
| 41 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 sulking | aux |
| 42 | sulking | sulk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 means | ccomp |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 sulking | punct |
| 44 | . | . | 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 | gāoxìng | glad property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | gāoxìng not said here | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | gāoxìng not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | tā in a quote | past | gāoxìng not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | gāoxìng in a quote | gerund | gāoxìng not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | mean | present | le | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | sulk in a quote | present · progressive | le | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:6.
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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