Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 2
Picture Ming's big sister holding up a card: «Today is xīngqīsì.
Who acts: you, big sister, Today · What happens: picture, hold up, be · To what, where: big sister, card · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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, big sister, Today), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ming | case |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sister | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 holding | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 card | det |
| 9 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 xīngqīsì | punct |
| 12 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 xīngqīsì | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 xīngqīsì | cop |
| 14 | xīngqīsì | xīngqīsì | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Ming's big sister | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sister=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold up | gerund | Ming's big sister not said here | a card | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot card=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Today | xīngqīsì 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:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:2.
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): no change. 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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