Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 3
Put picture-characters together and you get new ideas: two trees 林 make a wood, a sun and a moon 明 make «bright», and a person leaning on a tree 休 is having a rest, the xiū in xiūxi.
Who acts: you, two trees, sun, person · What happens: put, get, make, lean, have · To what, where: picture characters, new ideas, wood, tree 休, 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 (you, two trees, sun, person), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 characters | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 picture | punct |
| 4 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 get | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ideas | amod |
| 10 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 trees | punct |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 trees | nummod |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | 林 | 林 | X | _ | 13 trees | appos |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sun | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 moon | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moon | det |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sun | conj |
| 24 | 明 | 明 | X | _ | 20 sun | appos |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | parataxis |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 bright | punct |
| 27 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 bright | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 having | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 having | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 person | det |
| 32 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 having | nsubj |
| 33 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 person | acl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 休 | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 休 | det |
| 36 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 休 | compound |
| 37 | 休 | 休 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leaning | obl |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 having | aux |
| 39 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Put | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 rest | det |
| 41 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 having | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 xiū | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 xiū | det |
| 44 | xiū | xiū | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 休 | appos |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 xiūxi | case |
| 46 | xiūxi | xiūxi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 xiū | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | picture characters | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent character=Goal | |||
| 2 | get | present | you | new ideas | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | two trees | a wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | a sun and a moon | bright property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | lean | gerund | a person not said here | a tree 休 | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on 休=Location | ||||
| 6 | have | present · progressive | a person | a rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
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:032-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters.lesson:3.
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): 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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