Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 12
"gāngcái" means just now, a moment ago, and points back; mǎshàng points forward.
Who acts: gāngcái · What happens: mean, point
This is a sentence of the lesson «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 (gāngcái), 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 gāngcái | punct |
| 2 | gāngcái | gāngcái | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gāngcái | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 now | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | _ | 4 means | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ago | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 means | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 points | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 points | cc |
| 13 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 points | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 points | punct |
| 16 | mǎshàng | mǎshàng | ADV | _ | 17 points | advmod |
| 17 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 18 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 points | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | gāngcái | now | ago property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | point | present | forward, mǎshàng property | vn wink-40.3.1 «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:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:12.
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): R8-pos-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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