At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 12
bié kèqi («BYEH KUH-chee», literally «don't be polite») means make yourself at home; it is an invitation, but still take one helping, not the whole plate.
Who acts: bié, seat · What happens: not do, be, mean, make, take · To what, where: yourself, home, invitation, one helping · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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 (bié, seat), 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 | bié | bié | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 means | nsubj |
| 2 | kèqi | kèqi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 bié | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 1 bié | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 BYEH | punct |
| 5 | BYEH | BYEH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 bié | appos |
| 6 | KUH | KUH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 BYEH | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chee | punct |
| 8 | chee | chee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 BYEH | flat |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 BYEH | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 literally | punct |
| 11 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 bié | appos |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 polite | cop |
| 16 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 do | xcomp |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 polite | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 bié | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 means | ccomp |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 invitation | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 invitation | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 invitation | cop |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 invitation | det |
| 28 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 take | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 take | cc |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 take | advmod |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 invitation | conj |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 helping | nummod |
| 34 | helping | helping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 plate | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 plate | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 plate | det |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 plate | amod |
| 39 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | infinitive | literally property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | polite property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | bié | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | yourself | home | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | seat | a invitation | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | seat not said here | one helping | still | the whole plate obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helping=Theme |
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:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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