Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 20
zěnme le («DZUN-muh luh») means what's up, what happened?; asking it gently is the kind thing when a friend is quiet, and the answer may be méi shìr or the real story.
Who acts: zěnme le, asking, friend, answer · What happens: mean, be, happen, ask · To what, where: le, kind thing, méi shìr · 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 (zěnme le, asking, friend, answer), 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 | zěnme | zěnme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 le | amod |
| 2 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 DZUN | punct |
| 4 | « | « | ADP | _ | 5 DZUN | case |
| 5 | DZUN | DZUN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 le | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 muh | punct |
| 7 | muh | muh | INTJ | _ | 5 DZUN | discourse |
| 8 | luh | luh | INTJ | _ | 9 » | discourse |
| 9 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 DZUN | nmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 DZUN | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 up | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 up | cop |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 means | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 happened | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 happened | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 thing | punct |
| 20 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 thing | csubj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asking | obj |
| 22 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 20 asking | advmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 thing | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thing | det |
| 25 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thing | amod |
| 26 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | parataxis |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 quiet | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 friend | det |
| 29 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 quiet | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 quiet | cop |
| 31 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thing | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shìr | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shìr | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 answer | det |
| 35 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shìr | nsubj |
| 36 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 shìr | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 shìr | cop |
| 38 | méi | méi | X | _ | 39 shìr | compound |
| 39 | shìr | shìr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thing | conj |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 story | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 story | det |
| 42 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 story | amod |
| 43 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shìr | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | zěnme le | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | up property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | le | gently property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | asking | the kind thing and méi shìr or the real story | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | a friend | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | may | the answer | méi shìr or the real story | 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:20.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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