Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 16

tài niú le («TIGH NYO luh», literally «too cow») is kids' and teenagers' slang for awesome; to grandparents it may sound odd or cheeky, and niú alone is cow.

Who acts: niú le, le · What happens: be, sound · To what, where: slang, cow

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 (niú le, le), 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	tài	tài	X	Foreign=Yes	3 le	dep
2	niú	niú	X	Foreign=Yes	3 le	flat:foreign
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slang	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 slang	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 TIGH	punct
6	TIGH	tigh	X	_	3 le	dep
7	NYO	NYO	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 TIGH	goeswith
8	luh	luh	INTJ	_	6 TIGH	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 luh	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 luh	punct
11	literally	literally	ADV	_	6 TIGH	advmod
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 TIGH	punct
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 cow	advmod
14	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 TIGH	dep
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 TIGH	punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 TIGH	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 slang	cop
18	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 slang	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 kids	case
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 teenagers	cc
21	teenagers	teenager	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kids	conj
22	'	's	PART	_	21 teenagers	case
23	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 awesome	case
25	awesome	awesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 slang	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sound	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 grandparents	case
28	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sound	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sound	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sound	aux
31	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 slang	parataxis
32	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sound	xcomp
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 cheeky	cc
34	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 odd	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 cow	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cow	cc
37	niú	niú	ADV	_	38 alone	advmod
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	40 cow	advmod
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 cow	cop
40	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slang	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 slang	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed act=assert, hedge=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	niú le	kids and teenagers's slang and cow	for awesome	tree rules
2	sound	may	le		to grandparents; odd property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to grandparent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	niú le not said here	cow	alone 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:16.

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): R8-pos-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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