Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 9
"hóuzi" means monkey; the Monkey King of the stories is Sūn Wùkōng, and "nǐ zhēn hóu!" teases a cheeky, fidgety kid.
Who acts: hóuzi, Monkey King · What happens: mean, be, tease · To what, where: monkey, Sūn, cheeky fidgety kid
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 (hóuzi, Monkey King), 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 hóuzi | punct |
| 2 | hóuzi | hóuzi | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hóuzi | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sūn | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sūn | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stories | det |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 King | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Sūn | cop |
| 14 | Sūn | Sūn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | conj |
| 15 | Wùkōng | Wùkōng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sūn | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 teases | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 teases | cc |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 zhēn | punct |
| 19 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 zhēn | cc |
| 20 | zhēn | zhēn | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 teases | discourse |
| 21 | hóu | hóu | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 zhēn | flat |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 zhēn | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 zhēn | punct |
| 24 | teases | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Sūn | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 kid | det |
| 26 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kid | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cheeky | punct |
| 28 | fidgety | fidgety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kid | amod |
| 29 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 teases | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | hóuzi | monkey | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Monkey King of the stories | Sūn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tease | present | the Monkey King of the stories not said here | a cheeky fidgety kid | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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