Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 0

Most of what you hear from Ming and his friends isn't sentences at all — it's little noises and quick words: āiyā!, wa!, zhēn de ma?, kù!

Who acts: you, Most, it · What happens: hear, not be, be · To what, where: Ming, sentences, all, little noises

This is a sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» 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, Most, it), 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	13 sentences	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 what	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hear	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Most	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Ming	case
7	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 friends	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Ming	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sentences	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sentences	advmod
13	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sentences	obl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 noises	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 noises	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 noises	cop
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 noises	amod
20	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sentences	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 words	cc
22	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 words	amod
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 noises	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 āiyā	punct
25	āiyā	āiyā	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noises	conj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 āiyā	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wa	punct
28	wa	wa	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sentences	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 sentences	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ma	punct
31	zhēn	zhēn	X	Foreign=Yes	33 ma	dep
32	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ma	amod
33	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sentences	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 sentences	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kù	punct
36	kù	kù	X	Foreign=Yes	13 sentences	dep
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 sentences	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	you		Ming and his friends		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Topic from ming=Source
2	not is a	present	Most	sentences	all	wa obl; de ma obl	tree rules
3	is a	present	it	little noises and quick words and āiyā			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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:0.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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