The four tones: same sound, different meaning, sentence 12
tāng (high) is soup and táng (rising) is sugar or sweets.
Who acts: tāng · What happens: be · To what, where: soup, sugar
This is a sentence of the lesson «The four tones: same sound, different meaning» 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 (tāng), 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 | tāng | tāng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soup | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 high | punct |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 tāng | amod |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 high | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 soup | cop |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 táng | cc |
| 8 | táng | táng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soup | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 rising | punct |
| 10 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 táng | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 rising | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sugar | cop |
| 13 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soup | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sweets | cc |
| 15 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sugar | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 soup | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tāng | soup and táng and sugar or sweets | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | tāng not said here | sugar or sweets | 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:002-the-four-tones.lesson:12.
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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