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title: mántou («MAHN?-toe») is a plain steamed bun with no filling; with a… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: mántou («MAHN?-toe») is a plain steamed bun with no filling; with a filling it is a bāozi. Who acts: mántou, filling. 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 of every clause.
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# Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 9

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mántou («MAHN?-toe») is a plain steamed bun with no filling; with a filling it is a bāozi.

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**Who acts:** mántou, filling · **What happens:** steam, be · **To what, where:** plain steamed bun, bāozi

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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 (mántou, filling), 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:9
# text = mántou («MAHN?-toe») is a plain steamed bun with no filling; with a filling it is a bāozi.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×4
1	mántou	mántou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
4	MAHN	MAHN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
7	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
12	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	steamed	steam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	filling	filling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	filling	filling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bāozi	bāozi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steam** | participle | mántou |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a plain steamed bun |  |  |  | with no filling | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | filling | a bāozi |  |  |  | with a filling | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×4. **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/).

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