Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 15

zhēn guāi («JUN GWIGH») means such a good child; guāi means well-behaved, and it is the highest praise from a granny.

Who acts: zhēn, guāi, child · What happens: mean, behave, be · To what, where: good child, highest praise

This is a sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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 (zhēn, guāi, child), 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	zhēn	zhēn	X	Foreign=Yes	9 means	nsubj
2	guāi	guāi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 zhēn	flat
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	1 zhēn	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 JUN	cc
5	JUN	JUN	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 zhēn	appos
6	GWIGH	GWIGH	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 JUN	flat
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 GWIGH	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 zhēn	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 child	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
15	guāi	guāi	X	Foreign=Yes	16 means	nsubj
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 behaved	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
19	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 means	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 praise	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 praise	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 praise	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 praise	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 praise	det
25	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 praise	amod
26	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 granny	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 granny	det
29	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 praise	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	zhēn	such good child		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
2	mean	present	guāi			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	behave not said to happen	participle	guāi not said here		well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	child	the highest praise	from a granny	tree rules

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:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:15.

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 ×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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