The body, sentence 15

"pìgu" means bottom or bum; it is a childish word, not a rude one, and "fàng pì" (to fart) makes every playground laugh.

Who acts: pìgu, playground · What happens: mean, be, fàng, fart, make, laugh · To what, where: bottom, childish word, pì, playground · 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 (pìgu, playground), 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 pìgu	punct
2	pìgu	pìgu	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 pìgu	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 bum	cc
7	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bottom	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 word	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 word	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 word	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
12	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 word	amod
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 one	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 makes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fàng	cc
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 fàng	punct
22	fàng	fàng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 makes	nsubj:outer
23	pì	pì	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fàng	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 fàng	punct
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 fart	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fart	mark
27	fart	fart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fàng	parataxis
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 fart	punct
29	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 playground	det
31	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 makes	obj
32	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 makes	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	pìgu	bottom or bum	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Topic
2	is a	present	pìgu	a childish word and a rude one	tree rules
3	fàng in a quote	gerund		pì	tree rules
4	fart	to-infinitive			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	present		every playground	tree rules
6	laugh	infinitive	every playground not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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