Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 13
"yú" (rising) means fish; it sounds like the word for "surplus", so a whole fish is eaten at New Year for "plenty every year", and some families never flip the fish over, like a boat capsizing.
Who acts: yú, families · What happens: mean, sound, eat, not flip over, capsize · To what, where: fish, whole fish
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 (yú, families), 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 yú | punct |
| 2 | yú | yú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 yú | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 5 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yú | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sounds | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sounds | nsubj |
| 11 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 word | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounds | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 surplus | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 surplus | punct |
| 17 | surplus | surplus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 surplus | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eaten | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 eaten | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fish | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fish | amod |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eaten | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 eaten | aux:pass |
| 25 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Year | case |
| 27 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 28 Year | flat |
| 28 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 eaten | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 plenty | case |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 plenty | punct |
| 31 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eaten | obl |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 year | det |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 plenty | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 plenty | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 flip | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 flip | cc |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 families | det |
| 38 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 flip | nsubj |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 flip | advmod |
| 40 | flip | flip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sounds | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 fish | det |
| 42 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 flip | obj |
| 43 | over | over | ADV | _ | 40 flip | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 capsizing | punct |
| 45 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 48 capsizing | mark |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 boat | det |
| 47 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 capsizing | compound |
| 48 | capsizing | capsize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 flip | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | 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 | yú | fish | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | yú | like the word for surplus | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | eat | present · passive | a whole fish | at New Year | for plenty every year | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | not flip over | present | some families | the fish | over property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | |||
| 5 | capsize | gerund | some families not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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