Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 14

"dài sǎn" means "take an umbrella"; an umbrella is an unlucky present for some people, because sǎn sounds like sàn, to split up.

Who acts: dài sǎn, umbrella, sǎn · What happens: mean, take, be, sound, split up · To what, where: umbrella, unlucky present · 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 (dài sǎn, umbrella, sǎn), 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	_	3 sǎn	punct
2	dài	dài	X	_	3 sǎn	compound
3	sǎn	sǎn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sǎn	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 umbrella	det
9	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 present	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 umbrella	det
13	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 present	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 present	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 present	det
16	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 present	amod
17	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 present	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sounds	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	24 sounds	mark
23	sǎn	sǎn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sounds	nsubj
24	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 present	advcl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 sàn	case
26	sàn	sàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sounds	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 split	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 split	mark
29	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 split	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	dài sǎn			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	infinitive		a umbrella		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme
3	is a	present	a umbrella	a unlucky present	for some people	tree rules
4	sound	present	sǎn		like sàn	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	split up not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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