Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 14

"xiǎopéngyǒu" means little kid, literally "little friend"; from a teacher it is sweet, but from a big kid "nǐ shì xiǎopéngyǒu!" means "you're too little to play".

Who acts: xiǎopéngyǒu, kid, you · What happens: mean, be, play · To what, where: little kid · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (xiǎopéngyǒu, kid, you), 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 xiǎopéngyǒu	punct
2	xiǎopéngyǒu	xiǎopéngyǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 xiǎopéngyǒu	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
8	literally	literally	ADV	_	11 friend	advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friend	amod
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kid	appos
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sweet	punct
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 teacher	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 teacher	det
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sweet	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sweet	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sweet	cop
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 means	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 means	cc
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 kid	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 kid	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kid	amod
25	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 kid	punct
27	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	28 shì	flat:foreign
28	shì	shì	X	Foreign=Yes	25 kid	conj
29	xiǎopéngyǒu	xiǎopéngyǒu	X	Foreign=Yes	28 shì	flat
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 kid	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 kid	punct
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 little	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 little	nsubj
35	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 little	cop
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 little	advmod
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 means	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 play	mark
39	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 little	advcl
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 little	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	xiǎopéngyǒu	little kid		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Topic
2	is	present	kid		from a teacher; sweet property	tree rules
3	mean	present			from a big kid	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	you		little property	tree rules
5	play in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «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:14.

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, 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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