Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 4
Listen for tones: zuó rising is in zuótiān, yesterday, but zuò falling is "sit" or "do".
Who acts: you, zuó rising, zuò falling · What happens: listen, be, do · To what, where: zuótiān
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 (you, zuó rising, zuò falling), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 tones | case |
| 3 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Listen | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 zuótiān | punct |
| 5 | zuó | zuó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rising | compound |
| 6 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 zuótiān | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 zuótiān | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 zuótiān | case |
| 9 | zuótiān | zuótiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tones | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yesterday | punct |
| 11 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 zuótiān | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sit | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sit | cc |
| 14 | zuò | zuò | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 falling | amod |
| 15 | falling | falling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sit | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sit | cop |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sit | punct |
| 18 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 zuótiān | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sit | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sit | conj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | for tones and zuótiān | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | zuó rising | zuótiān | yesterday | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | zuò falling | sit property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | zuò falling not said here | vn act-114-1 «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:4.
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 ×2, 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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