Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 3
Tones turn animals into other things: māo (cat) is high and level, but máo rising is fur; niú (cow) is also slang for "awesome!"; yú (fish) sounds like the word for "plenty", so a whole fish is eaten at New Year.
Who acts: Tones, māo, rising, niú, yú · What happens: turn, be, sound, eat · To what, where: animals, other things, fur, slang, 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 (Tones, māo, rising, niú), 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 | Tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 māo | punct |
| 8 | māo | māo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 high | nsubj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 cat | punct |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 māo | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 cat | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 high | cop |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 turn | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 level | cc |
| 15 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 high | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fur | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 slang | cc |
| 18 | máo | máo | SCONJ | _ | 21 fur | mark |
| 19 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fur | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fur | cop |
| 21 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 high | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fur | punct |
| 23 | niú | niú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slang | nsubj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 cow | punct |
| 25 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 niú | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 cow | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 slang | cop |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 slang | advmod |
| 29 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turn | parataxis |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 awesome | case |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 awesome | punct |
| 32 | awesome | awesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 slang | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 awesome | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 awesome | punct |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 yú | punct |
| 36 | yú | yú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sounds | nsubj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 fish | punct |
| 38 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 yú | appos |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 fish | punct |
| 40 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 slang | acl:relcl |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 43 word | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 word | det |
| 43 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sounds | obl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 plenty | case |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 plenty | punct |
| 46 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 word | nmod |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 plenty | punct |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 eaten | punct |
| 49 | so | so | ADV | _ | 54 eaten | advmod |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 fish | det |
| 51 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 fish | amod |
| 52 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 eaten | aux:pass |
| 54 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 sounds | parataxis |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 57 Year | case |
| 56 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Year | amod |
| 57 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 eaten | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Tones | animals | other things | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent animal=Theme into thing=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | present | māo | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | rising | fur | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | niú | slang | for awesome | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sound | present | yú | slang not said here | like the word for plenty | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slang=Theme | |||
| 6 | eat | present · passive | a whole fish | at New Year | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:3.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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