Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 6
"māo" (high and level) means cat; máo (rising) means fur, and also the "10p" coin of Chinese money.
Who acts: māo, máo · What happens: mean, coin · To what, where: cat, fur, Chinese money
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 (māo, máo), 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 māo | punct |
| 2 | māo | māo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 māo | punct |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 māo | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 level | cc |
| 7 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 high | conj |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 12 | máo | máo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 rising | punct |
| 14 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 máo | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 rising | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | parataxis |
| 17 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 coin | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 coin | cc |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 coin | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coin | det |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 p | punct |
| 23 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 p | nummod |
| 24 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coin | compound |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 p | punct |
| 26 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 money | case |
| 28 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 money | amod |
| 29 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coin | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | māo | cat | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | máo | fur | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Topic | ||||
| 3 | coin | Chinese money | nom coin «possession transitive»: of=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:6.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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