Colours, sentence 4
Watch the sounds: lǜ (green) needs the new ü — say «ee» with lips rounded for «oo» — or it turns into lù (road).
Who acts: you, lǜ · What happens: watch, need, say, round, turn · To what, where: sounds, new ü, ee, lips, lù · 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, lǜ), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sounds | det |
| 3 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Watch | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 lǜ | punct |
| 5 | lǜ | lǜ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 green | punct |
| 7 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lǜ | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 green | punct |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ü | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ü | amod |
| 12 | ü | ü | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 ee | punct |
| 16 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 ee | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 lips | case |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ee | conj |
| 20 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lips | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 oo | case |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 oo | punct |
| 23 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rounded | obl |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 oo | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 turns | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 turns | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turns | nsubj |
| 28 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 needs | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 lù | case |
| 30 | lù | lù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turns | obl |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 road | punct |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lù | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 road | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | the sounds | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | lǜ | the new ü | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ü=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | ee and lips | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ee=Topic | |||||
| 4 | round | participle | lips not said here | for oo | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | turn | present | lǜ | lù | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lù=Trajectory |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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