Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 5

"bèndàn" means silly or dummy, literally "stupid egg"; the cheeky answer is "nǐ cái shì bèndàn!", and it is rude to a struggling younger child or to an adult.

Who acts: bèndàn · What happens: mean, be, struggle · To what, where: silly

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 (bèndàn), 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 bèndàn	punct
2	bèndàn	bèndàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bèndàn	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 dummy	cc
7	dummy	dummy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silly	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 egg	punct
9	literally	literally	ADV	_	12 egg	advmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 egg	punct
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 egg	amod
12	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 silly	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 egg	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	ccomp
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 nǐ	cop
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 nǐ	punct
20	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	17 answer	conj
21	cái	cái	X	Foreign=Yes	20 nǐ	flat
22	shì	shì	X	Foreign=Yes	20 nǐ	flat
23	bèndàn	bèndàn	X	Foreign=Yes	20 nǐ	flat
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rude	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rude	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rude	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 rude	cop
30	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 child	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 child	det
33	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 child	amod
34	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 child	amod
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rude	obl
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 adult	cc
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 adult	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 adult	det
39	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 child	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	bèndàn	silly		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silly=Topic
2	is	present	bèndàn		to a struggling younger child or a adult; rude property	tree rules
3	struggle	gerund				vn battle-36.4 «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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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