Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 15
"nǐ shǔ shénme?" asks your zodiac animal; you answer like "wǒ shǔ lóng", I'm a Dragon.
Who acts: shǔ shénme, you, I · What happens: ask, answer, be · To what, where: zodiac animal, Dragon
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 (shǔ shénme, you, I), 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 | _ | 4 shénme | punct |
| 2 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 shénme | dep |
| 3 | shǔ | shǔ | X | _ | 4 shénme | compound |
| 4 | shénme | shénme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shénme | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shénme | punct |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 animal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | zodiac | zodiac | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animal | amod |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 answer | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 answer | nsubj |
| 13 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asks | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 lóng | case |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lóng | punct |
| 16 | wǒ | wǒ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lóng | amod |
| 17 | shǔ | shǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lóng | compound |
| 18 | lóng | lóng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answer | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lóng | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dragon | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 Dragon | nsubj |
| 22 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Dragon | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Dragon | det |
| 24 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answer | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | shǔ shénme | your zodiac animal | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | you | like wǒ shǔ lóng | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a Dragon | tree rules |
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:15.
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 ×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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