The four tones: same sound, different meaning, sentence 5
Listening hard, then copying the tune, is how you get it right.
Who acts: you · What happens: listen, copy, be · To what, where: tune
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 (you), 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 | Listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 get | csubj |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Listening | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 copying | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | _ | 5 copying | advmod |
| 5 | copying | copy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Listening | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tune | det |
| 7 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copying | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listening | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | cop |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 get | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | gerund | hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | copy | gerund | the tune | then | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | get, right property | 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:5.
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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