--- title: And the kuàizi (chopsticks) have their own rules: never stand them u… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: And the kuàizi (chopsticks) have their own rules: never stand them upright in the rice, never point them at people, never drum on the bowl. Who acts: kuàizi, own rules, chopsticks. 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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, own rules, chopsticks), 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:5 # text = And the kuàizi (chopsticks) have their own rules: never stand them upright in the rice, never point them at people, never drum on the bowl. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 kuàizi kuàizi NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 chopsticks chopstick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 upright upright ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 point point VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 drum drum VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the kuàizi | chopsticks's own rules | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **stand** | infinitive | chopsticks's own rules *not said here* | rules *= rule* | | the rice | | upright *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in rice=Destination | | 3 | **not** **point** | infinitive | chopsticks's own rules *not said here* | rules *= rule* | | | | at people | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **not** **drum** | infinitive | chopsticks's own rules *not said here* | | | | | on the bowl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on bowl=Patient | | 5 | **rule** | | chopsticks *= chopstick* | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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](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:5`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dinner at the friend's house, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/4/) - next →: [Dinner at the friend's house, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/)