The body, sentence 7

"ěrduo" means ears; "nǐ de ěrduo hóng le" (your ears have gone red) means you're embarrassed; ěr dips, while èr (two) falls.

Who acts: ěrduo, ears, hóng, you, èr · What happens: mean, hóng, go, be, fall · To what, where: ears · 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 (ěrduo, ears, hóng, you), 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 ěrduo	punct
2	ěrduo	ěrduo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ěrduo	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hóng	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 nǐ	punct
8	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	10 ěrduo	nmod:poss
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 nǐ	case
10	ěrduo	ěrduo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hóng	nsubj
11	hóng	hóng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 means	csubj
12	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	11 hóng	flat:foreign
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hóng	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ears	nmod:poss
16	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gone	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 hóng	advcl
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gone	xcomp
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 embarrassed	nsubj
23	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 embarrassed	cop
24	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 dips	punct
26	ěr	ěr	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dips	amod
27	dips	dip	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 embarrassed	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 falls	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 falls	mark
30	èr	èr	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 falls	nsubj
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 two	punct
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 èr	appos
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 èr	punct
34	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 embarrassed	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	ěrduo	ears		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Topic
2	hóng in a quote	gerund	nǐ's ěrduo			tree rules
3	go	present · perfect	your ears		red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mean	present	hóng			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	you		embarrassed property	tree rules
6	fall	present	èr			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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