Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 12
"niú" (rising) means cow or ox, and in slang "tài niú le!" means "awesome!".
Who acts: niú, niú le · What happens: mean · To what, where: cow
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 (niú, niú le), 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 niú | punct |
| 2 | niú | niú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 niú | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 5 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 niú | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 ox | cc |
| 10 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cow | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 means | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 means | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 slang | case |
| 14 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 slang | punct |
| 16 | tài | tài | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 le | dep |
| 17 | niú | niú | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 le | compound |
| 18 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 le | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 le | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 awesome | punct |
| 23 | awesome | awesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 means | ccomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 awesome | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 awesome | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | niú | cow or ox | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | niú le | in slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute |
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:12.
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 ×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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