Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 17
kù («koo!», falling) means cool and was borrowed from English; hǎo kù! means so cool.
Who acts: kù, hǎo · What happens: mean, borrow · To what, where: English
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 (kù, hǎo), 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 | kù | kù | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 koo | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 koo | punct |
| 4 | koo | koo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 kù | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 koo | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 koo | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 falling | punct |
| 8 | falling | falling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 kù | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 kù | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 borrowed | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 borrowed | aux:pass |
| 14 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 means | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 English | case |
| 16 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 borrowed | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 means | punct |
| 18 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 means | nsubj |
| 19 | kù | kù | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 hǎo | flat:foreign |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 hǎo | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | parataxis |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 cool | advmod |
| 23 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 means | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | kù | cool property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | borrow | past · passive | kù not said here | English | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: from english=Source | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | hǎo | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:17.
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 ×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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