Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 6

"shǎguā" means silly-billy, literally "silly melon"; said with a smile, by parents to small kids or friends to friends, it is almost cuddly, while "shǎ" alone can be harsher.

Who acts: shǎguā, shǎ · What happens: mean, say, be · To what, where: silly billy · 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 (shǎguā, shǎ), 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 shǎguā	punct
2	shǎguā	shǎguā	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 shǎguā	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 billy	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 silly	punct
7	billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 melon	punct
9	literally	literally	ADV	_	12 melon	advmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 melon	punct
11	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 melon	amod
12	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 billy	appos
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 melon	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 smile	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 smile	det
18	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 parents	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 parents	case
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 kids	case
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kids	amod
24	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 parents	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 friends	cc
26	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 kids	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 friends	case
28	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 friends	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cuddly	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cuddly	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 cuddly	cop
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 cuddly	advmod
33	cuddly	cuddly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shǎ	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 harsher	mark
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 shǎ	punct
37	shǎ	shǎ	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 harsher	nsubj
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 shǎ	punct
39	alone	alone	ADV	_	37 shǎ	advmod
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 harsher	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 harsher	cop
42	harsher	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 cuddly	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	shǎguā	silly billy		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billy=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	shǎguā not said here		with a smile; by parents to small kids or friends to friends	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner
3	is	present	shǎguā		almost, cuddly property	tree rules
4	is	can	shǎ		harsh 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:6.

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): R5-strong ×3, 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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