At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 3
Most Chinese homes are shoes-off, even if nobody says it.
Who acts: Most Chinese homes, nobody · What happens: be, say · To what, where: jìn · 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 (Most Chinese homes, nobody), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 homes | amod |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 homes | amod |
| 3 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 off | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | cop |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 off | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 off | punct |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 says | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 says | mark |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 off | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most Chinese homes | shoes obl; off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | nobody | jìn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:3.
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, R8-pos-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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