Hungry, tired, shy, excited, sentence 2

Tones trick the ear here: è (hungry) falls like a short "uh!", but é rising is "goose" — so a wobbly voice can announce "I'm a goose" instead.

Who acts: Tones, è, é rising, wobbly voice · What happens: trick, fall, be, announce · To what, where: ear, goose · 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 (Tones, è, é rising, wobbly voice), 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	Tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trick	nsubj
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ear	det
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 trick	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 è	punct
7	è	è	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falls	nsubj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 hungry	punct
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 è	amod
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 hungry	punct
11	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 trick	parataxis
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 short	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 short	det
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 falls	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 uh	punct
16	uh	uh	INTJ	_	14 short	discourse
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 uh	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 uh	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 goose	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 goose	cc
21	é	é	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rising	amod
22	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 goose	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 goose	cop
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 goose	punct
25	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 short	parataxis
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 goose	punct
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 announce	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 announce	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 voice	det
30	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 voice	amod
31	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 announce	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 announce	aux
33	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 falls	conj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 goose	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 goose	nsubj
36	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 goose	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 goose	det
38	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 announce	ccomp
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 goose	punct
40	instead	instead	ADV	_	33 announce	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trick	present	Tones	the ear	here		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	fall	present	è			like a short	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	é rising	goose			tree rules
4	announce speech: other	can	a wobbly voice			instead property	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	a wobbly voice = voice	a goose			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:2.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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