Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 26
In Mandarin, the tone of a word changes its meaning, so a wrong tone can make a funny mistake.
Who acts: tone, wrong tone · What happens: change, make, intonate, mean · To what, where: meaning, Mandarin, funny mistake, word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday 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 (tone, wrong tone), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Mandarin | case |
| 2 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 changes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tone | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tone | det |
| 5 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changes | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tone | nmod |
| 9 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | advcl |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 11 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 make | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tone | det |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tone | amod |
| 16 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mistake | det |
| 20 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mistake | amod |
| 21 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | the tone of a word | tone's meaning | Mandarin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | can | a wrong tone | a funny mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | ||||
| 3 | intonate | a word | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | mean | tone | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:26.
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. 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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