Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 0
You walk into Lín's kitchen after school and say "wǒ è le" — "waw UH luh", I'm hungry — and his mum is delighted: feeding a hungry child is her favourite job.
Who acts: You, I, mum, feeding · What happens: walk, say, be, feed · To what, where: kitchen, wǒ, hungry child, favourite job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hungry, tired, shy, excited» 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 (You, I, mum, feeding), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 4 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lín | case |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walk | obl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walk | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walk | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wǒ | punct |
| 12 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 say | obj |
| 13 | è | è | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 14 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wǒ | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
| 18 | waw | waw | INTJ | Number=Sing | 2 walk | discourse |
| 19 | UH | uh | INTJ | _ | 2 walk | discourse |
| 20 | luh | luh | INTJ | _ | 2 walk | discourse |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 luh | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hungry | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hungry | nsubj |
| 24 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hungry | cop |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 luh | conj |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 delighted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 delighted | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mum | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 delighted | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 delighted | cop |
| 31 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 walk | conj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 job | punct |
| 33 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 job | csubj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 child | det |
| 35 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 child | amod |
| 36 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 feeding | obj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 job | cop |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 job | nmod:poss |
| 39 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 job | amod |
| 40 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 delighted | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | You | after school | into Lín's kitchen result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | You not said here | wǒ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wǒ=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Lín's mum | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feed | gerund | a hungry child | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | feeding | child's favourite job | 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:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×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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