Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 13
"xiǎo pàngzi" means chubby, "little fatty"; from a granny to a toddler it is praise, but from a kid to a kid it hurts, because body teasing is not friendly.
Who acts: xiǎo pàngzi, gàozhuàngjīng, body teasing · What happens: mean, be, hurt, not be · To what, where: chubby, praise
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 (xiǎo pàngzi, gàozhuàngjīng, body teasing), 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 | _ | 3 pàngzi | punct |
| 2 | xiǎo | xiǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 pàngzi | flat:foreign |
| 3 | pàngzi | pàngzi | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pàngzi | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | chubby | chubby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chubby | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fatty | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fatty | amod |
| 10 | fatty | fatty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chubby | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fatty | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 praise | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 granny | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 granny | det |
| 15 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 praise | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 toddler | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 toddler | det |
| 18 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 granny | nmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 praise | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 praise | cop |
| 21 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurts | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 hurts | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 kid | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 kid | det |
| 26 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hurts | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 kid | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 kid | det |
| 29 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kid | nmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hurts | nsubj |
| 31 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 praise | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 friendly | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 friendly | mark |
| 34 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 teasing | compound |
| 35 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 friendly | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 friendly | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 friendly | advmod |
| 38 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hurts | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | xiǎo pàngzi | chubby | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chubby=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | gàozhuàngjīng | praise | from a granny to a toddler | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hurt | present | gàozhuàngjīng | from a kid to a kid | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from kid=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | body teasing | friendly property | 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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:13.
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, R7-rel-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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