The body, sentence 9

"zuǐba" means mouth; the dentist says "zhāng zuǐ", open your mouth; zuǐ also turns up in a rude "shut up!", and the soft way is "bié shuō le".

Who acts: zuǐba, dentist, zuǐ, soft way · What happens: mean, say, zhāng, open, turn up, shut up · To what, where: mouth, zuǐ, rude, bié shuō le · 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 (zuǐba, dentist, zuǐ, soft way), 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 zuǐba	punct
2	zuǐba	zuǐba	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 zuǐba	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dentist	det
8	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 zhāng	punct
11	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 says	ccomp
12	zuǐ	zuǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 zhāng	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 zhāng	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 open	punct
15	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 open	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 turns	punct
19	zuǐ	zuǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 turns	advmod
21	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 turns	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 rude	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rude	det
25	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 turns	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 shut	punct
27	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 rude	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 shut	compound:prt
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 shut	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 rude	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 le	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 le	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 way	det
34	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 le	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 le	cop
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 le	punct
38	bié	bié	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 le	amod
39	shuō	shuō	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 le	compound
40	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turns	conj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 le	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	zuǐba	mouth		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Topic
2	say speech: express	present	the dentist			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	zhāng in a quote	gerund		zuǐ		tree rules
4	open	infinitive		your mouth		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
5	turn up	present	zuǐ		a rude	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rude=Location
6	shut up in a quote	participle	zuǐ not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	the soft way	bié shuō le		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:9.

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 ×1, 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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