Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 15
"xiǎo pìhái" means brat or little pest; adults say it about naughty children and it is a bit rude.
Who acts: xiǎo pìhái, adults, adult · What happens: mean, say, be · To what, where: brat, pìhái · 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 (xiǎo pìhái, adults, adult), 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 pìhái | punct |
| 2 | xiǎo | xiǎo | X | _ | 3 pìhái | compound |
| 3 | pìhái | pìhái | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pìhái | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | brat | brat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 pest | cc |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pest | amod |
| 9 | pest | pest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brat | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 11 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 15 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 children | amod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rude | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rude | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rude | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rude | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 say | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | xiǎo pìhái | brat or little pest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | adults | pìhái | about naughty children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | adult | a bit obl:unmarked; rude 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:15.
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 ×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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