Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 10
"tùzi" (falling) means rabbit, and a Moon Rabbit appears in the Mid-Autumn story; tǔ (dipping) means soil.
Who acts: tùzi, Moon Rabbit, tǔ · What happens: fall, mean, appear · To what, where: rabbit, Mid-Autumn story, soil
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 (tùzi, Moon Rabbit, tǔ), 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 tùzi | punct |
| 2 | tùzi | tùzi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tùzi | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 falling | punct |
| 5 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 tùzi | acl |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 falling | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appears | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appears | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Rabbit | det |
| 12 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Rabbit | compound |
| 13 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appears | nsubj |
| 14 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 story | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 17 | Mid-Autumn | Mid-Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 story | compound |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appears | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 20 | tǔ | tǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 dipping | punct |
| 22 | dipping | dipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tǔ | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 dipping | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 appears | parataxis |
| 25 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | tùzi | rabbit | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | a Moon Rabbit | the Mid-Autumn story | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | tǔ | soil | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=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:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:10.
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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