Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 0
Lín asks "nǐ shǔ shénme?" — "nee SHOO SHUN-muh", literally "what do you belong to?" — and he means your zodiac animal, the animal of the Chinese year you were born in.
Who acts: Lín, nee SHOO, Chinese year · What happens: ask, shun, belong, mean, bear in · To what, where: shǔ shénme, nee SHOO, muh, zodiac animal, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» 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 (Lín, nee SHOO, Chinese year), 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 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 4 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 asks | dep |
| 5 | shǔ | shǔ | X | _ | 6 shénme | compound |
| 6 | shénme | shénme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 11 | nee | nee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 SHOO | amod |
| 12 | SHOO | SHOO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obj |
| 13 | SHUN | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 muh | punct |
| 15 | muh | muh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 SHUN | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 muh | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 belong | punct |
| 18 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 23 belong | advmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 belong | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 belong | obl |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 belong | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 belong | nsubj |
| 23 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 means | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 means | nsubj |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 animal | nmod:poss |
| 32 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 animal | compound |
| 33 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 animal | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 animal | det |
| 36 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 animal | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 year | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 year | det |
| 39 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 year | amod |
| 40 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 animal | nmod |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 born | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 born | aux:pass |
| 43 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 year | acl:relcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADV | _ | 43 born | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Lín | shǔ shénme | nee SHOO | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shun in a quote | infinitive | Lín not said here | muh | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent muh=Location | ||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present · do-support | nee SHOO = shoo | literally property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | Lín | your zodiac animal | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bear in | past · passive | the Chinese year not said here | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:0.
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 ×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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