Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 8
"xiǎoqìguǐ" means meanie, someone stingy who won't share; it is unfair if their family has little money.
Who acts: xiǎoqìguǐ, family · What happens: mean, not share, be, have · To what, where: meanie, little money
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 (xiǎoqìguǐ, family), 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 xiǎoqìguǐ | punct |
| 2 | xiǎoqìguǐ | xiǎoqìguǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 xiǎoqìguǐ | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | meanie | meanie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 someone | punct |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 meanie | appos |
| 8 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 someone | amod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 share | nsubj |
| 10 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 share | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 share | advmod |
| 12 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 someone | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 unfair | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 unfair | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 unfair | cop |
| 16 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | parataxis |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 has | mark |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 family | nmod:poss |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 unfair | advcl |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 money | amod |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | xiǎoqìguǐ | meanie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meanie=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not share | future | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | xiǎoqìguǐ | unfair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | friends's family | little money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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:8.
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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