The body, sentence 5
"tóu" (rising) means head; "tóu téng" is a headache, and grannies may fondly touch a child's head.
Who acts: tóu, tóu téng, grannies · What happens: mean, be, touch · To what, where: head, headache
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 (tóu, tóu téng, grannies), 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 tóu | punct |
| 2 | tóu | tóu | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tóu | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 5 | rising | rising | X | _ | 2 tóu | flat |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 headache | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 téng | punct |
| 11 | tóu | tóu | X | _ | 12 téng | compound |
| 12 | téng | téng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 headache | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 téng | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 headache | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 headache | det |
| 16 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 touch | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 touch | cc |
| 19 | grannies | grannie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 touch | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 touch | aux |
| 21 | fondly | fondly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 touch | advmod |
| 22 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 headache | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 child | case |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 touch | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | tóu | head | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | tóu téng | a headache | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | touch | may | grannies | a child's head | fondly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme |
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:5.
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. 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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