Colours, sentence 9
lánsè («LAHN?-suh») is blue; the blue of the sky can also be called qīng, a word for blue or green.
What happens: be, call · To what, where: 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: 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 | lánsè | lánsè | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 LAHN | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 LAHN | punct |
| 4 | LAHN | LAHN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 lánsè | appos |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 LAHN | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 suh | punct |
| 7 | suh | suh | INTJ | _ | 11 blue | discourse |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 blue | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 blue | cop |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 lánsè | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blue | det |
| 14 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blue | nmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 called | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 blue | parataxis |
| 22 | qīng | qīng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 word | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 word | det |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 qīng | appos |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 blue | case |
| 27 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 word | nmod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 green | cc |
| 29 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 blue | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 blue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | blue property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | can · passive | the blue of the sky | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:9.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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