Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 11

āiyā («IGH-yah») means oh no, oh dear or oh my; everyone says it, and it can be cross, surprised or fond, so you read the face.

Who acts: āiyā, everyone, test, you · What happens: mean, say, be, read · To what, where: test, face · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (āiyā, everyone, test, 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	āiyā	āiyā	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 »	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 »	punct
4	IGH	igh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yah	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 yah	punct
6	yah	yah	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 »	compound
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 āiyā	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 »	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 no	discourse
11	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 means	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dear	punct
13	oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 dear	discourse
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 means	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
16	oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 says	discourse
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 says	nmod:poss
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 says	nsubj
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 says	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cross	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cross	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cross	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 cross	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 cross	cop
27	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 says	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 surprised	punct
29	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cross	conj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 fond	cc
31	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cross	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 read	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 read	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 read	nsubj
35	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cross	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 face	det
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 read	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	āiyā			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	everyone	test		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is	can	test		cross property	tree rules
4	be		test not said here			tree rules
5	be		test not said here			tree rules
6	read	present	you	the face		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:11.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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