Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 11
"chòuměi" means vain, a show-off about looks; chòu (smelly) appears in many teasing words meaning "too pleased with yourself".
Who acts: chòuměi, chòu, many teasing words · What happens: mean, appear · To what, where: vain, many teasing words
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 (chòuměi, chòu, many teasing words), 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 chòuměi | punct |
| 2 | chòuměi | chòuměi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 chòuměi | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 appears | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 off | det |
| 8 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 off | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 off | punct |
| 10 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vain | appos |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 looks | case |
| 12 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 off | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 looks | punct |
| 14 | chòu | chòu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 appears | nsubj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 smelly | punct |
| 16 | smelly | smelly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chòu | conj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 smelly | punct |
| 18 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 words | case |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 words | amod |
| 21 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 words | compound |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 appears | obl |
| 23 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 words | acl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleased | punct |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 pleased | advmod |
| 26 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 meaning | ccomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 yourself | case |
| 28 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 pleased | obl |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleased | punct |
| 30 | . | . | 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 | chòuměi | vain | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vain=Topic | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | chòu | many teasing words | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | many teasing words not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:11.
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 ×2, 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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