Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 7

"dǎnxiǎoguǐ" means scaredy-cat, literally "small-gall ghost"; the answer is "wǒ cái bú pà!", but daring someone with it can push them into something dangerous.

Who acts: dǎnxiǎoguǐ, answer · What happens: mean, dare, push · To what, where: scaredy cat, someone, friends, something

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 (dǎnxiǎoguǐ, answer), 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 dǎnxiǎoguǐ	punct
2	dǎnxiǎoguǐ	dǎnxiǎoguǐ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dǎnxiǎoguǐ	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scaredy	scaredy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 scaredy	punct
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ghost	punct
9	literally	literally	ADV	_	14 ghost	advmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ghost	punct
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gall	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 small	punct
13	gall	gall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ghost	compound
14	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	appos
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ghost	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wǒ	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wǒ	cop
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 wǒ	punct
21	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	4 means	parataxis
22	cái	cái	X	Foreign=Yes	21 wǒ	flat:foreign
23	bú	bú	X	Foreign=Yes	21 wǒ	flat:foreign
24	pà	pà	X	Foreign=Yes	21 wǒ	flat:foreign
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 wǒ	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 wǒ	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 push	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 means	cc
29	daring	dare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 means	conj
30	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 daring	obj
31	with	with	SCONJ	_	34 push	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 push	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 push	aux
34	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 daring	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 push	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 something	case
37	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 push	obl
38	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 something	amod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	dǎnxiǎoguǐ	scaredy cat			tree rules
2	dare	gerund	dǎnxiǎoguǐ not said here		someone		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
3	push	can	answer	friends = friend		something	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into something=Destination

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:7.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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