Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★, sentence 7
tiáo is for long, thin, bendy things: yì tiáo yú (a fish), yì tiáo lù (a road), yì tiáo hé (a river), yì tiáo kùzi (a pair of trousers), and also snakes (shé) and dragons.
Who acts: tiáo · What happens: be
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 (tiáo), 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 | tiáo | tiáo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 things | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thin | punct |
| 8 | bendy | bendy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 yì | punct |
| 11 | yì | yì | X | _ | 9 things | parataxis |
| 12 | tiáo | tiáo | X | _ | 11 yì | goeswith |
| 13 | yú | yú | X | _ | 11 yì | goeswith |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 fish | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yì | flat |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 fish | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lù | punct |
| 19 | yì | yì | CCONJ | _ | 21 lù | cc |
| 20 | tiáo | tiáo | ADP | _ | 21 lù | case |
| 21 | lù | lù | X | _ | 11 yì | flat |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 road | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lù | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 road | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 river | punct |
| 27 | yì | yì | CCONJ | _ | 32 river | cc |
| 28 | tiáo | tiáo | ADP | _ | 32 river | case |
| 29 | hé | hé | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 river | nsubj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 river | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 river | det |
| 32 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yì | flat |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 river | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 yì | punct |
| 35 | yì | yì | X | _ | 11 yì | goeswith |
| 36 | tiáo | tiáo | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 yì | flat |
| 37 | kùzi | kùzi | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 yì | flat |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 pair | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 pair | det |
| 40 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yì | flat |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 trousers | case |
| 42 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 pair | nmod |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 pair | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 snakes | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 snakes | cc |
| 46 | also | also | ADV | _ | 47 snakes | advmod |
| 47 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 yì | goeswith |
| 48 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 shé | punct |
| 49 | shé | shé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 snakes | appos |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 shé | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 dragons | cc |
| 52 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 snakes | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 things | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tiáo | for long thin bendy things | 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:7.
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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