--- title: Some days there are jiǎozi (dumplings), miàntiáo (noodles) to slurp,… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: Some days there are jiǎozi (dumplings), miàntiáo (noodles) to slurp, or plain mántou buns; breakfast may be zhōu, a salty rice porridge, nothing like British porridge. A sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Dinner at the friend's house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/) / 4 # Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 4 Some days there are jiǎozi (dumplings), miàntiáo (noodles) to slurp, or plain mántou buns; breakfast may be zhōu, a salty rice porridge, nothing like British porridge. **What happens:** be, slurp · **To what, where:** jiǎozi This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:4 # text = Some days there are jiǎozi (dumplings), miàntiáo (noodles) to slurp, or plain mántou buns; breakfast may be zhōu, a salty rice porridge, nothing like British porridge. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:expl 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 jiǎozi jiǎozi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 dumplings dumpling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 miàntiáo miàntiáo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 noodles noodle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 slurp slurp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 mántou mántou NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:_ 20 buns bun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 22 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 zhōu zhōu X FW Foreign=Yes 5 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 32 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 conj _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | jiǎozi and miàntiáo or plain mántou buns | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **slurp** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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](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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/3/) - next →: [Dinner at the friend's house, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/)