Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 12
wa («wah!», high and long) means wow, said just like in English when something is amazing.
Who acts: wa, something · What happens: mean, say, like, be · To what, where: English · 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 (wa, something), 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 | wa | WA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 wah | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 wah | punct |
| 4 | wah | wah | INTJ | _ | 6 » | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wah | punct |
| 6 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 wa | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 » | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 means | cc |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 high | conj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 high | advcl |
| 13 | wow | wow | INTJ | _ | 12 means | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 wa | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 English | case |
| 19 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 amazing | advmod |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 amazing | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 amazing | cop |
| 23 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 like | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | wa not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wa | English | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | like | infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | present | something | amazing property | 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:12.
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 ×2, 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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