Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 2

Animal names are full of surprises: xióngmāo, panda, is "bear-cat"; lǎohǔ, tiger, and lǎoshǔ, mouse, both start with lǎo, "old", but nothing about them is old.

Who acts: Animal names, xióngmāo, lǎohǔ, nothing · What happens: be, start · To what, where: bear cat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Animal names, xióngmāo, lǎohǔ, nothing), 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	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	compound
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 surprises	case
6	surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 xióngmāo	punct
8	xióngmāo	xióngmāo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cat	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 panda	punct
10	panda	panda	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 xióngmāo	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cat	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cat	cop
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 cat	punct
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cat	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 bear	punct
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	parataxis
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 cat	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 old	punct
19	lǎohǔ	lǎohǔ	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 start	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tiger	punct
21	tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 lǎohǔ	nmod:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lǎoshǔ	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lǎoshǔ	cc
24	lǎoshǔ	lǎoshǔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lǎohǔ	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mouse	punct
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lǎoshǔ	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 start	punct
28	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	29 start	nsubj
29	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 lǎo	case
31	lǎo	lǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	29 start	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 old	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 old	punct
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lǎo	appos
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 old	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 old	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 old	cc
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	42 old	nsubj
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 nothing	nmod
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 old	cop
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 full	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Animal names		of surprises; full property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	xióngmāo and panda	bear cat		tree rules
3	start	present	lǎohǔ tiger and lǎoshǔ and mouse		with lǎo	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lǎo=Subeventuality
4	is	present	nothing		old property	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:2.

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 ×1, 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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