Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 14
"lóng" (rising) means dragon; Chinese dragons are lucky, wise and bring rain.
Who acts: lóng, Chinese dragons · What happens: mean, be, bring · To what, where: dragon, rain
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 (lóng, Chinese dragons), 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 lóng | punct |
| 2 | lóng | lóng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 lóng | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 5 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lóng | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 rising | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 10 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dragons | amod |
| 11 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lucky | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lucky | cop |
| 13 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wise | punct |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lucky | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lucky | conj |
| 18 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | lóng | dragon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Chinese dragons | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Chinese dragons not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bring | present | Chinese dragons not said here | rain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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