Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 8
"xià yǔ le" means "it's raining", literally "rain has come down"; yǔ (rain) dips, while yú (fish) rises.
Who acts: xià yǔ le, it, rain, yǔ, yú · What happens: mean, rain, come down, dip, rise · 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 (xià yǔ le, it, rain, yǔ), 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 | _ | 4 le | punct |
| 2 | xià | xià | X | _ | 4 le | compound |
| 3 | yǔ | yǔ | X | _ | 4 le | compound |
| 4 | le | le | X | _ | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 le | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 raining | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 raining | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 raining | aux |
| 10 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 raining | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 literally | punct |
| 13 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 10 raining | advmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dips | punct |
| 21 | yǔ | yǔ | X | _ | 25 dips | nsubj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 rain | punct |
| 23 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yǔ | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 rain | punct |
| 25 | dips | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rises | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 rises | mark |
| 28 | yú | yú | X | _ | 32 rises | nsubj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 fish | punct |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 yú | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 fish | punct |
| 32 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dips | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | xià yǔ le | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rain in a quote | present · progressive | it | literally property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 3 | come down in a quote | present · perfect | rain | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dip | present | yǔ | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rise | present | yú | vn assuming_position-50 «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:8.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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