Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 4
Nobody is dying: in Mandarin, «sǐ le» (dead) just means «very».
Who acts: Nobody, sǐ le · What happens: die, mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language 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 (Nobody, sǐ le), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 dying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dying | aux |
| 3 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mandarin | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Mandarin | case |
| 6 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 means | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 » | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 le | punct |
| 9 | sǐ | sǐ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 le | amod |
| 10 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 le | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 le | amod |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 means | advmod |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dying | parataxis |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 very | punct |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 means | obj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 very | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dying | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | Nobody | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | sǐ le | in Mandarin | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot very=Theme in mandarin=Attribute |
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:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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