Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 14
Characters built from pictures: 林 lín (two trees) is a wood, 森 sēn (three trees) is in sēnlín, a forest, 明 míng (sun and moon) means bright, and 休 xiū (person and tree) means rest.
Who acts: 林 lín, 森 sēn, 明 míng, 休 xiū · What happens: build, be, mean · To what, where: Characters, pictures, wood, sēnlín, rest
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★» 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 (林 lín, 森 sēn, 明 míng, 休 xiū), 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 | Characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 means | dislocated |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Characters | acl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 pictures | case |
| 4 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 built | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 wood | punct |
| 6 | 林 | 林 | X | _ | 7 lín | flat:foreign |
| 7 | lín | lín | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wood | nsubj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 trees | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 trees | nummod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lín | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 trees | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wood | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 means | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sēnlín | punct |
| 16 | 森 | 森 | X | _ | 17 sēn | flat:foreign |
| 17 | sēn | sēn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sēnlín | nsubj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 trees | punct |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 trees | nummod |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sēn | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 trees | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sēnlín | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sēnlín | case |
| 24 | sēnlín | sēnlín | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wood | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 forest | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sēnlín | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 míng | punct |
| 29 | 明 | 明 | X | _ | 30 míng | flat:foreign |
| 30 | míng | míng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 means | nsubj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 sun | punct |
| 32 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 míng | appos |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 moon | cc |
| 34 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sun | conj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 sun | punct |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 means | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 means | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 means | cc |
| 40 | 休 | 休 | X | _ | 41 xiū | flat:foreign |
| 41 | xiū | xiū | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 means | nsubj |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 person | punct |
| 43 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 xiū | appos |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 tree | cc |
| 45 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 person | conj |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 person | punct |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 means | parataxis |
| 48 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 means | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | participle | Characters not said here | pictures | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from picture=Material | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | 林 lín | a wood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | 森 sēn | sēnlín and a forest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | 明 míng | Characters dislocated; bright property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | 休 xiū | rest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |
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.
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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 ×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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