Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 8

You can gasp «zhēn de ma?» (really?) or «bù huì ba!» (no way!), and when he shows you the test, «lìhai!» or «tài niú le!» — literally «too cow», meaning awesome.

Who acts: You, dad · What happens: gasp, show, cow, mean · To what, where: zhēn, test, you

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 (You, dad), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 gasp	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 gasp	aux
3	gasp	gasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 gasp	punct
5	zhēn	zhēn	X	Foreign=Yes	3 gasp	obj
6	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ma	amod
7	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gasp	obl:unmarked
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gasp	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 gasp	punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 really	punct
11	really	really	ADV	_	3 gasp	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 really	punct
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 really	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 «	cc
15	«	«	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind Typo=Yes	3 gasp	obj
16	bù	bù	X	_	15 «	goeswith
17	huì	huì	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ba	amod
18	ba	ba	X	_	15 «	flat
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 «	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 «	punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 «	flat
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shows	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shows	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 shows	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shows	nsubj
30	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gasp	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 shows	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 test	det
33	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shows	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lìhai	punct
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 lìhai	punct
36	lìhai	lìhai	X	Foreign=Yes	3 gasp	obj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 lìhai	punct
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 lìhai	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 tài	cc
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 tài	punct
41	tài	tài	X	Foreign=Yes	3 gasp	obj
42	niú	niú	X	Foreign=Yes	41 tài	flat
43	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tài	flat
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gasp	punct
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 gasp	punct
46	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 gasp	punct
47	literally	literally	ADV	_	50 cow	advmod
48	«	«	PUNCT	_	50 cow	punct
49	too	too	ADV	_	50 cow	advmod
50	cow	cow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gasp	conj
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 cow	punct
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 meaning	punct
53	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 cow	advcl
54	awesome	awesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 meaning	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gasp	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gasp	can	You	zhēn		de ma obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	show	present	dad	the test	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient test=Topic
3	cow in a quote	infinitive	You not said here			literally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	mean	gerund	You not said here			awesome property	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:8.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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