The body, sentence 8
"bízi" means nose; "liú bítì" is a runny nose, and "wā bíshǐ" (picking your nose) is a word kids find hilarious.
Who acts: bízi, bítì, bíshǐ, kids · What happens: mean, liú, be, wā, pick, find · To what, where: nose, runny nose, bíshǐ, word · 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 (bízi, bítì, bíshǐ, kids), 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 bízi | punct |
| 2 | bízi | bízi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bízi | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 liú | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 liú | punct |
| 8 | liú | liú | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 9 | bítì | bítì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nose | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bítì | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nose | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nose | det |
| 13 | runny | runny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nose | amod |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 liú | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wā | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wā | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wā | punct |
| 18 | wā | wā | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 19 | bíshǐ | bíshǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wā | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bíshǐ | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 picking | punct |
| 22 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 bíshǐ | acl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nose | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 picking | obj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 picking | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 word | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 word | det |
| 28 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wā | obl |
| 29 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 find | nsubj |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 word | acl:relcl |
| 31 | hilarious | hilarious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 find | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | bízi | nose | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Topic | ||||
| 2 | liú in a quote | past | bízi not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | bítì | a runny nose | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wā in a quote | past | bízi not said here | bíshǐ | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pick | gerund | bíshǐ not said here | your nose | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | a word | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | find | present | kids | a word not said here | hilarious property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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:8.
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 ×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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