--- title: mǐfàn («MEE-fahn») is cooked rice, a bowl each at nearly every meal;… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: mǐfàn («MEE-fahn») is cooked rice, a bowl each at nearly every meal; lifting the bowl near your mouth is good manners. Who acts: mǐfàn, lifting. A sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 7 mǐfàn («MEE-fahn») is cooked rice, a bowl each at nearly every meal; lifting the bowl near your mouth is good manners. **Who acts:** mǐfàn, lifting · **What happens:** cook, be, lift · **To what, where:** cooked rice, meal, bowl, mouth, good manners 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: who acts (mǐfàn, lifting), 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:7 # text = mǐfàn («MEE-fahn») is cooked rice, a bowl each at nearly every meal; lifting the bowl near your mouth is good 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 mǐfàn mǐfàn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 3 « « X GW _ 1 parataxis _ _ 4 MEE mee X GW _ 3 flat _ _ 5 - - X GW _ 6 compound _ _ 6 fahn fahn X GW _ 3 flat _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 11 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 15 each each ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 21 lifting lift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cook** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | mǐfàn | cooked rice | | every meal | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lift** | gerund | | the bowl | | your mouth | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme near mouth=Destination | | 4 | **is a** | present | lifting | good 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:7`. **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 ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/6/) - next →: [Dinner at the friend's house, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/)