--- title: kuàizi («KWIGH-dz») are chopsticks; upright in rice they look like i… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: kuàizi («KWIGH-dz») are chopsticks; upright in rice they look like incense at a funeral, and pointing them or tapping the bowl is bad manners. Who acts: kuàizi, families, pointing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kuàizi, families, pointing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:16 # text = kuàizi («KWIGH-dz») are chopsticks; upright in rice they look like incense at a funeral, and pointing them or tapping the bowl is bad manners. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson # annotation = 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 1 kuàizi kuàizi X FW Foreign=Yes 10 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 3 « « X GW _ 1 appos _ _ 4 KWIGH kwigh X GW _ 3 flat _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:GW:_ 6 dz dz NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 » » X NN _ 3 flat _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 upright upright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 csubj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 tapping tap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 12 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | kuàizi | chopsticks | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | kuàizi *not said here* | | | rice | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | families *= family* | rice *not said here* | | | | like incense at a funeral | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rice=Attribute | | 4 | **point** | gerund | | families *= family* | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **tap** | gerund | | the bowl | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bowl=Location | | 6 | **is a** | present | pointing | bad manners | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:16`. **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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dinner at the friend's house, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/15/) - next →: [Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/)