Counting 1 to 10, on one hand, sentence 13
bā («bah», high) is eight, the luckiest number because it rhymes with fā (to get rich); shown as an L of thumb and index finger, which is not pointing a gun at anyone.
Who acts: bā, bah, L · What happens: be, rhyme, get, show, not point · To what, where: eight, fā, gun, anyone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting 1 to 10, on one hand» 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 (bā, bah, L), 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 | bā | bā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 eight | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 bah | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 bah | punct |
| 4 | bah | bah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bā | appos |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 bā | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 high | punct |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 bā | conj |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 high | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eight | cop |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eight | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 13 | luckiest | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 number | amod |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eight | appos |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 rhymes | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rhymes | nsubj |
| 17 | rhymes | rhyme | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 number | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fā | case |
| 19 | fā | fā | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rhymes | obl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 fā | appos |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 get | xcomp |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shown | punct |
| 26 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fā | acl |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 L | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 L | det |
| 29 | L | l | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shown | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 thumb | case |
| 31 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 L | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 finger | cc |
| 33 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 finger | compound |
| 34 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 L | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pointing | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 pointing | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 pointing | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 pointing | advmod |
| 39 | pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 L | acl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 gun | det |
| 41 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pointing | obj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 anyone | case |
| 43 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 pointing | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 eight | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bā | eight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rhyme | present | bah | with fā | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with fā=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | show | participle | fā not said here | as a L of thumb and index finger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not point | present · progressive | a L of thumb and index finger | a gun | anyone | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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:006-counting-one-to-ten.lesson:13.
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, 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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