Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 9
"xiànzài" means now; "xiànzài kěyǐ ma?" is "can we now?", and a parent's "xiànzài bù xíng" (not now) is a polite no.
Who acts: xiànzài · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: xíng, polite no.
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 (xiànzài), 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 xiànzài | punct |
| 2 | xiànzài | xiànzài | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 xiànzài | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 means | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ma | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 xiànzài | punct |
| 8 | xiànzài | xiànzài | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 ma | amod |
| 9 | kěyǐ | kěyǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 ma | amod |
| 10 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ma | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ma | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 can | cop |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 can | punct |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | ccomp |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ? | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 ? | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 can | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 can | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 xíng | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 xíng | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 parent | det |
| 23 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 xíng | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 parent | case |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 xiànzài | punct |
| 26 | xiànzài | xiànzài | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 xíng | discourse |
| 27 | bù | bù | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 xiànzài | flat |
| 28 | xíng | xíng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 xíng | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 now | punct |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 now | advmod |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 no. | advmod |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 now | punct |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 no. | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 no. | det |
| 36 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 no. | amod |
| 37 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 means | conj |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | xiànzài | a parent's xíng | now | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent xíng=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | xiànzài not said here | a polite no. | now | tree rules |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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