--- title: On the table there is mǐfàn (rice) in a bowl each, which you pick up… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: On the table there is mǐfàn (rice) in a bowl each, which you pick up and hold near your mouth — good manners here, not messy like at school dinners. Who acts: mǐfàn, you. 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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 (mǐfàn, you), 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:2 # text = On the table there is mǐfàn (rice) in a bowl each, which you pick up and hold near your mouth — good manners here, not messy like at school dinners. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 mǐfàn mǐfàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 near near ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 — - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 obl _ _ 27 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 messy messy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 dinners dinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | mǐfàn | each | | the table; there | | in a bowl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location | | 2 | **pick up** | present | you | mǐfàn | | | | good manners *obl* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 3 | **hold** | present | you *not said here* | | | your mouth | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near mouth=Location | 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:2`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dinner at the friend's house, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/0/) - next →: [Dinner at the friend's house, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/)