At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 5
Take a little, say xièxie āyí, and you're doing brilliantly.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, say, do · To what, where: little, xièxie āyí · 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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 6 | xièxie | xièxie | X | _ | 7 āyí | compound |
| 7 | āyí | āyí | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 doing | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 doing | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 doing | aux |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Take | conj |
| 13 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 12 doing | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a little | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | xièxie āyí | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent āyí=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | present · progressive | you | brilliantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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