Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 19

kuài kàn («KWIGH KAHN») means look, quick!; the answer is nǎr? (where?), and kàn falls, while dipping kǎn means chop.

Who acts: kuài, answer, kàn · What happens: mean, look, be, fall, dip · To what, where: KWIGH, means chop · 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 (kuài, answer, kàn), 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	kuài	kuài	X	Foreign=Yes	9 means	nsubj
2	kàn	kàn	X	Foreign=Yes	1 kuài	flat
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
4	«	«	CCONJ	_	10 look	cc
5	KWIGH	kwigh	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	10 look	obl
6	KAHN	KAHN	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 KWIGH	goeswith
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 KAHN	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 KAHN	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
12	quick	quick	ADV	_	10 look	advmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 nǎr	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 answer	det
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nǎr	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 nǎr	cop
18	nǎr	nǎ	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 look	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 nǎr	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 where	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 nǎr	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 where	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 where	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 falls	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 falls	cc
26	kàn	kàn	X	Foreign=Yes	27 falls	nsubj
27	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 look	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 falls	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 dipping	mark
30	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 falls	advcl
31	kǎn	kǎn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 means	amod
32	means	means	NOUN	Number=Ptan	33 chop	compound
33	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dipping	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	kuài			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present		KWIGH	quick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	the answer		nǎ property	tree rules
4	fall	present	kàn			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dip	gerund	kàn not said here	means chop		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chop=Theme

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:19.

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 ×4, R7-rel-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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