Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 8
"lǎohǔ" means tiger and "lǎoshǔ" means mouse or rat; the lǎo (old) in them does not mean old.
Who acts: lǎohǔ, lǎoshǔ, lǎo · What happens: mean, not mean · To what, where: tiger, mouse
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 (lǎohǔ, lǎoshǔ, lǎo), 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 lǎohǔ | punct |
| 2 | lǎohǔ | lǎohǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 lǎohǔ | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 means | cc |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lǎoshǔ | punct |
| 8 | lǎoshǔ | lǎoshǔ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lǎoshǔ | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 rat | cc |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lǎo | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lǎo | det |
| 16 | lǎo | lǎo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lǎo | amod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lǎo | nmod |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 mean | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 mean | advmod |
| 24 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | conj |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mean | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | lǎohǔ | tiger | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | lǎoshǔ | mouse or rat | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | the lǎo in lǎoshǔ | old property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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