The body, sentence 2

Tones turn body parts into numbers and food: ěr (dipping) is in ěrduo, ears, but èr (falling) is two; jiǎo is a foot, but jiǎozi are dumplings and jiào is "to be called".

Who acts: Tones, ěr, jiǎozi · What happens: turn, be · To what, where: body parts, numbers, ěrduo, two, foot, dumplings · 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 (Tones, ěr, jiǎozi), 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 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 parts	compound
4	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 numbers	case
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 food	cc
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 numbers	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct
10	ěr	ěr	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ěrduo	nsubj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 dipping	punct
12	dipping	dipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ěr	acl
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 dipping	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ěrduo	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 ěrduo	case
16	ěrduo	ěrduo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ears	punct
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ěrduo	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 èr	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 èr	cc
21	èr	èr	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ěrduo	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 falling	punct
23	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 èr	appos
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 falling	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 two	cop
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 ěrduo	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 foot	punct
28	jiǎo	jiǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	31 foot	dep
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 foot	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 foot	det
31	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dumplings	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 called	cc
34	jiǎozi	jiǎozi	X	Foreign=Yes	36 dumplings	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 dumplings	cop
36	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 jiào	cc
38	jiào	jiào	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dumplings	conj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 called	cop
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 called	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	43 called	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 called	aux:pass
43	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 turn	parataxis
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 called	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Tones	body parts	numbers and food		tree rules
2	is	present	ěr		ěrduo and ears but èr		tree rules
3	is a	present		two			tree rules
4	is a	present		a foot			tree rules
5	is a	present	jiǎozi	dumplings and jiào			tree rules
6	is in a quote	present · passive				call property	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:018-the-body.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 ×1, R7-rel-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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