Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 0
Lín's granny is on a video call with China and asks "tiānqì zěnmeyàng?" — what's the weather like? — and Lín, looking out at grey Britain, says "yīntiān", a cloudy day, as usual.
Who acts: granny, video call, Lín · What happens: be, ask, look out, say · To what, where: video call, weather, grey Britain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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 (granny, video call, Lín), 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 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 granny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lín | case |
| 3 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 call | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 call | det |
| 7 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | compound |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 says | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 China | case |
| 10 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asks | cc |
| 12 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 zěnmeyàng | punct |
| 14 | tiānqì | tiānqì | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 zěnmeyàng | nsubj |
| 15 | zěnmeyàng | zěnmeyàng | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 asks | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 zěnmeyàng | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 zěnmeyàng | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 weather | punct |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 weather | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 weather | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weather | det |
| 22 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | parataxis |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 Lín | case |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 like | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Lín | cc |
| 27 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looking | punct |
| 29 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 Lín | acl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 looking | compound:prt |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 grey | case |
| 32 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Britain | amod |
| 33 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 looking | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weather | punct |
| 35 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 yīntiān | punct |
| 37 | yīntiān | yīntiān | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 says | nsubj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 yīntiān | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 day | punct |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 day | det |
| 41 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 day | amod |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 yīntiān | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 usual | punct |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 usual | case |
| 45 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 yīntiān | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lín's granny | a video call | with China | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Lín's granny not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a video call | the weather | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look out | gerund | Lín not said here | grey Britain | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Lín | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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