Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 0
Lín trips over the football and his mate grins "bèndàn!" — "BUN-DAHN", literally "stupid egg" — and Lín grins back "nǐ cái shì bèndàn!", you're the dummy!: that is teasing between friends, and both of them are laughing.
Who acts: Lín, you, that, both · What happens: trip, grin, grin back, be, tease, laugh · To what, where: football, bèndàn, nǐ, dummy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» 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 (Lín, you, that, both), 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 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | nsubj |
| 2 | trips | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 football | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 football | det |
| 5 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grins | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grins | compound |
| 9 | grins | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 trips | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bèndàn | punct |
| 11 | bèndàn | bèndàn | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 grins | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 bèndàn | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bèndàn | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 DAHN | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 DAHN | punct |
| 16 | BUN | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 DAHN | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 DAHN | punct |
| 18 | DAHN | DAHN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | appos |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 DAHN | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 egg | punct |
| 21 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 24 egg | advmod |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 egg | punct |
| 23 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 egg | amod |
| 24 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | appos |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 egg | punct |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 grins | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 grins | cc |
| 28 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 grins | nsubj |
| 29 | grins | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 trips | conj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 grins | advmod |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 grins | punct |
| 32 | nǐ | nǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 grins | obj |
| 33 | cái | cái | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 34 | shì | shì | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 35 | bèndàn | bèndàn | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 nǐ | flat:foreign |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 trips | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 trips | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 dummy | punct |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 dummy | nsubj |
| 40 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 dummy | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 dummy | det |
| 42 | dummy | dummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | acl:relcl |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 trips | punct |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 teasing | punct |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 teasing | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 teasing | aux |
| 47 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 trips | parataxis |
| 48 | between | between | ADP | _ | 49 friends | case |
| 49 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 teasing | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 laughing | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 laughing | cc |
| 52 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 laughing | nsubj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 them | case |
| 54 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 both | nmod |
| 55 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 laughing | aux |
| 56 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 teasing | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trips | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | present | Lín | the football | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over football=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | grin | present | Lín not said here | bèndàn | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bèndàn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grin back | present | Lín | nǐ | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nǐ=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | the dummy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tease | present · progressive | that | between friends | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | laugh | present · progressive | both | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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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