Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 4
But careful, detectives: most characters are not pictures at all, they join a part for the meaning with a part that hints at the sound, so a picture guess is a good start, not a sure answer.
Who acts: most characters, careful detectives, part, picture guess · What happens: not be, join, hint, be · To what, where: pictures, all, part, sound, good start
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 (most characters, careful detectives, part, picture guess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 join | cc |
| 2 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 detectives | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 careful | punct |
| 4 | detectives | detective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 join | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 pictures | punct |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 characters | amod |
| 7 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pictures | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pictures | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pictures | advmod |
| 10 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 detectives | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 pictures | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pictures | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 join | nsubj |
| 15 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 join | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 meaning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 meaning | det |
| 20 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 part | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 part | det |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meaning | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 hints | nsubj |
| 25 | hints | hint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 part | acl:relcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 sound | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sound | det |
| 28 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hints | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 start | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 start | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 guess | det |
| 32 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 guess | compound |
| 33 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 start | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 start | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 start | det |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 start | amod |
| 37 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 join | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 answer | punct |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 answer | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 answer | det |
| 41 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 answer | amod |
| 42 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 start | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 join | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | most characters | pictures | all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | join | present | careful detectives and pictures | a part | for the meaning with a part | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | |||
| 3 | hint speech: other | present | a part | the sound | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a picture guess | a good start and a sure answer | 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:032-olympiad-measure-words-and-picture-characters.lesson:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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