The body, sentence 11
"shǒu" (dipping) means hand; "xǐ shǒu" means wash your hands, before eating; shòu (falling) means thin.
Who acts: shǒu, xǐ · What happens: dip, mean, wash, eat, fall · To what, where: hand, hands · 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 (shǒu, xǐ), 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 shǒu | punct |
| 2 | shǒu | shǒu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 shǒu | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipping | punct |
| 5 | dipping | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 shǒu | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipping | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wash | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 xǐ | punct |
| 11 | xǐ | xǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 means | nsubj |
| 12 | shǒu | shǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 xǐ | flat |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 xǐ | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 15 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 means | ccomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wash | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eating | punct |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 eating | mark |
| 20 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 wash | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 shòu | punct |
| 22 | shòu | shòu | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 means | obj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 falling | punct |
| 24 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 shòu | acl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 falling | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 27 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 means | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | gerund | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | shǒu | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | xǐ | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wash | infinitive | your hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||||
| 5 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | mean | present | thin property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:11.
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, 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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