Colours, sentence 18

nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè? («nee SHEE-hwahn SHUN-muh YEN?-suh») means what colour do you like?; you answer wǒ xǐhuan lánsè (I like blue).

Who acts: you, I · What happens: nǐ, shun, mean, like, answer · To what, where: xǐhuan shénme yánsè, muh YEN, colour, wǒ xǐhuan lánsè, blue · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I), 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	nǐ	nǐ	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	xǐhuan	xǐhuan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yánsè	amod
3	shénme	shénme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yánsè	compound
4	yánsè	yánsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nǐ	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 nǐ	punct
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 nee	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 nee	punct
8	nee	nee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 nǐ	parataxis
9	SHEE	SHEE	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hwahn	vocative
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 SHEE	punct
11	hwahn	hwahn	X	Foreign=Yes	8 nee	dep
12	SHUN	shun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hwahn	xcomp
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 YEN	punct
14	muh	muh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 YEN	amod
15	YEN	yen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 SHUN	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 nǐ	punct
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 suh	punct
18	suh	suh	INTJ	_	21 means	discourse
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 suh	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 »	punct
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 nǐ	parataxis
22	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	23 colour	det
23	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 like	obj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 means	ccomp
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 answer	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 answer	nsubj
30	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 nǐ	advcl
31	wǒ	wǒ	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lánsè	amod
32	xǐhuan	xǐhuan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lánsè	amod
33	lánsè	lánsè	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 answer	obj
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 like	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 like	nsubj
36	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 answer	parataxis
37	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 like	obj
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 like	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 nǐ	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	nǐ	imperative	you not said here	xǐhuan shénme yánsè	tree rules
2	shun in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	muh YEN	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent yen=Location
3	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	like	present · do-support	you	what colour	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme
5	answer speech: ask	present	you	wǒ xǐhuan lánsè	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lánsè=Eventuality
6	like	present	I	blue	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blue=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:18.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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