The body, sentence 0
At Lín's house you trip over the cat and his mum rushes in: "nǎr téng?" — "where does it hurt?" — and you point and say "zhèr téng", it hurts here.
Who acts: you, mum, house · What happens: trip, rush in, téng, hurt, point, say · To what, where: house, zhèr téng · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The body» 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, mum, house), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lín | case |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 trip | nsubj |
| 6 | trip | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 cat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rushes | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushes | nsubj |
| 13 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trip | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rushes | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 téng | punct |
| 17 | nǎr | nǎr | INTJ | _ | 18 téng | discourse |
| 18 | téng | téng | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 trip | acl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 téng | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 téng | punct |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 hurt | advmod |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hurt | aux |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | nsubj |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trip | parataxis |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 point | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 point | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 point | nsubj |
| 32 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trip | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 say | cc |
| 34 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 point | conj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 téng | punct |
| 36 | zhèr | zhèr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 téng | compound |
| 37 | téng | téng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 say | obj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 téng | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hurts | punct |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 hurts | nsubj |
| 41 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trip | parataxis |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 hurts | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trip | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | present | you | Lín's house | over the cat | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rush in | present | cat's mum | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | téng in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hurt in a quote | present · do-support | house | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | point | present | you | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | zhèr téng | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent téng=Topic | ||||
| 7 | hurt | present | house | here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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:018-the-body.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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