Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 5
"gǒu" (dipping) means dog; xiǎo gǒu (puppy) is sweet, but calling a person a dog is a real insult.
Who acts: gǒu, xiǎo, person, calling · What happens: dip, mean, be, call · To what, where: dog, real insult · 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 (gǒu, xiǎo, person, calling), 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 gǒu | punct |
| 2 | gǒu | gǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gǒu | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipping | punct |
| 5 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gǒu | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipping | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sweet | punct |
| 10 | xiǎo | xiǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 sweet | nsubj |
| 11 | gǒu | gǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 xiǎo | flat |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 puppy | punct |
| 13 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gǒu | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 puppy | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sweet | cop |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 insult | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 insult | cc |
| 19 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 insult | csubj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calling | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calling | xcomp |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 insult | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 insult | det |
| 26 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 insult | amod |
| 27 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sweet | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | gerund | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | gǒu | dog | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | xiǎo | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | a person | a dog | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | calling | a real insult | 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:5.
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 ×1, 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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