Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 8
"hòutiān" means the day after tomorrow, and "qiántiān" means the day before yesterday; English has no single word for either.
Who acts: hòutiān, qiántiān, English · What happens: mean, have · To what, where: single word
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 (hòutiān, qiántiān, English), 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 hòutiān | punct |
| 2 | hòutiān | hòutiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hòutiān | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 tomorrow | case |
| 8 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 means | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 qiántiān | punct |
| 12 | qiántiān | qiántiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 qiántiān | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 yesterday | case |
| 18 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 word | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 word | amod |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 either | case |
| 26 | either | either | PRON | PronType=Ind | 24 word | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | hòutiān | day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | qiántiān | day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | English | no single word | for either | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
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: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): 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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