Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 4
His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào.
Who acts: granny, you · What happens: hold out, say · To what, where: bun, yào · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Yes and no — there is no single word» 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 (granny, you), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 granny | nmod:poss |
| 2 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 holds | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bun | det |
| 6 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 bu | punct |
| 9 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 bu | flat:foreign |
| 10 | bu | bu | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 holds | dep |
| 11 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 bu | flat:foreign |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 holds | conj |
| 18 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 say | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | present | Ming's granny | a bun | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | yào | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yào=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.
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:004-yes-and-no.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.
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