The body, sentence 6
"yǎnjing" means eyes; "bì shàng yǎnjing" means close your eyes; mocking eye shapes or pulling your eyes is racism.
Who acts: yǎnjing, bì shàng yǎnjing, mocking · What happens: mean, close, mock, pull, be · To what, where: eyes, eye shapes, racism · 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 (yǎnjing, bì shàng yǎnjing, mocking), 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 yǎnjing | punct |
| 2 | yǎnjing | yǎnjing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 yǎnjing | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 shàng | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ; | punct |
| 8 | bì | bì | X | _ | 10 yǎnjing | flat:foreign |
| 9 | shàng | shàng | X | _ | 10 yǎnjing | flat:foreign |
| 10 | yǎnjing | yǎnjing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 yǎnjing | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 13 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 close | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 mocking | punct |
| 17 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 racism | csubj |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shapes | compound |
| 19 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mocking | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 pulling | cc |
| 21 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 mocking | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pulling | obj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 racism | cop |
| 25 | racism | racism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | yǎnjing | eyes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | bì shàng yǎnjing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | close not said to happen | infinitive | bì shàng yǎnjing not said here | your eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mock | gerund | eye shapes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pull | gerund | your eyes | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | mocking | racism | 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:6.
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): 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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