Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 9
"lǎnchóng" means lazybones, literally "lazy worm", and parents use it fondly on Sunday mornings.
Who acts: lǎnchóng, parents · What happens: mean, use · To what, where: lazybones, lǎnchóng
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 (lǎnchóng, parents), 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 lǎnchóng | punct |
| 2 | lǎnchóng | lǎnchóng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 lǎnchóng | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lazybones | lazybone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 worm | punct |
| 7 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 10 worm | advmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 worm | punct |
| 9 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 worm | amod |
| 10 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lazybones | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 worm | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 use | cc |
| 14 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | nsubj |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 use | obj |
| 17 | fondly | fondly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 use | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 mornings | case |
| 19 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mornings | compound |
| 20 | mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | obl |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | lǎnchóng | lazybones | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lazybone=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | present | parents | lǎnchóng | morning | fondly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9.
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. 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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