Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 7
"xióngmāo" means panda, literally "bear-cat"; in Taiwan some people say māoxióng.
Who acts: xióngmāo, people · What happens: mean, say · To what, where: panda, māoxióng, Taiwan · 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 (xióngmāo, people), 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 xióngmāo | punct |
| 2 | xióngmāo | xióngmāo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 xióngmāo | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | panda | panda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cat | punct |
| 7 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 11 cat | advmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cat | punct |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cat | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bear | punct |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 panda | appos |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cat | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Taiwan | case |
| 15 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 19 | māoxióng | māoxióng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | 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 | mean | present | xióngmāo | panda | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panda=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | some people | māoxióng | Taiwan | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent māoxióng=Theme in taiwan=Manner |
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:7.
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 ×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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