Colours, sentence 0

Picking crayons with Ming you hear a little «-sè» on the end of every colour: hóngsè, lánsè, huángsè. sè is the word for colour, just as yánsè is «colour» itself in «nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè?» (what colour do you like?).

Who acts: you, sè, yánsè · What happens: pick, hear, be, like · To what, where: crayons, little sè, word, colour, nǐ

This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» 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, sè, yánsè), 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	Picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hear	advcl
2	crayons	crayon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picking	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Ming	case
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picking	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 word	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 »	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sè	amod
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 sè	punct
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sè	punct
11	sè	sè	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sè	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 »	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 colour	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 colour	det
18	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 hóngsè	punct
20	hóngsè	hóngsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 colour	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lánsè	punct
22	lánsè	lánsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hóngsè	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 huángsè	punct
24	huángsè	huángsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hóngsè	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
26	sè	sè	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 word	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 word	det
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 colour	case
31	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 colour	punct
33	just	just	ADV	_	38 colour	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 colour	mark
35	yánsè	yánsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 colour	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 colour	cop
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 colour	punct
38	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 word	appos
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 colour	punct
40	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 colour	nmod
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 nǐ	case
42	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 colour	punct
43	nǐ	nǐ	X	ExtPos=PROPN	38 colour	nmod
44	xǐhuan	xǐhuan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 yánsè	amod
45	shénme	shénme	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 yánsè	compound
46	yánsè	yánsè	X	_	43 nǐ	flat
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 word	punct
48	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 word	punct
49	(	(	PUNCT	_	54 like	punct
50	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	51 colour	det
51	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 like	obj
52	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 like	aux
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 like	nsubj
54	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 word	parataxis
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	54 like	punct
56	)	)	PUNCT	_	54 like	punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick	gerund	you not said here	crayons		with Ming	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crayon=Patient
2	hear	present	you	little sè			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sè=Stimulus
3	is a	present	sè	the word		for colour	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	yánsè	colour	nǐ	yánsè nmod	tree rules
5	like	present · do-support	you	what colour			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme

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:008-colours.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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