Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 9

"xià xuě le" means "it's snowing!", and the answer is "duī xuěrén ba!", let's build a snowman; xué (rising) means study.

Who acts: xià xuě le, it, answer, 's, xué · What happens: mean, snow, be, let, build · To what, where: duī xuěrén ba, 's, snowman, study · 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 xuě le, it, answer, 's), 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	_	2 xià	punct
2	xià	xià	X	_	4 le	compound
3	xuě	xuě	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 snowing	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snowing	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snowing	aux
10	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 means	ccomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 snowing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 snowing	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ba	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ba	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ba	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 ba	cop
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 ba	punct
19	duī	duī	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ba	amod
20	xuěrén	xuěrén	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ba	compound
21	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snowing	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 ba	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 ba	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	parataxis
26	's	us	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 snowman	det
29	snowman	snowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 build	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 xué	punct
31	xué	xué	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 means	nsubj
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	33 rising	punct
33	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 xué	appos
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 rising	punct
35	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
36	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 means	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	xià xuě le		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	snow in a quote	present · progressive	it		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	is a in a quote	present	the answer	duī xuěrén ba	tree rules
4	let	infinitive		's	tree rules
5	build	infinitive	's not said here	a snowman	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snowman=Product
6	mean	present	xué	study	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Topic

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:9.

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): 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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