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title: tiào shéng («TYOW SHUNG?») is skipping with a rope; tiào (jump) fall… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! · tree and pragmatics
description: tiào shéng («TYOW SHUNG?») is skipping with a rope; tiào (jump) falls, while high tiāo means to pick; tiào píjīn is elastics. Who acts: tiào shéng, tiào, high tiāo, tiào píjīn. A sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary
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# Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 11

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tiào shéng («TYOW SHUNG?») is skipping with a rope; tiào (jump) falls, while high tiāo means to pick; tiào píjīn is elastics.

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**Who acts:** tiào shéng, tiào, high tiāo, tiào píjīn · **What happens:** skip, fall, mean, pick, be · **To what, where:** elastics

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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 (tiào shéng, tiào, high tiāo, tiào píjīn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:11
# text = tiào shéng («TYOW SHUNG?») is skipping with a rope; tiào (jump) falls, while high tiāo means to pick; tiào píjīn is elastics.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	tiào	tiào	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	shéng	shéng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	TYOW	TYOW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	SHUNG	SHUNG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tiào	tiào	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tiāo	tiāo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	tiào	tiào	NOUN	NN	_	30	compound	_	_
30	píjīn	píjīn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	elastics	elastic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **skip** | present · progressive | tiào shéng |  |  |  |  | with a rope | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | present | tiào |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | high tiāo |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | high tiāo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | tiào píjīn | elastics |  |  |  |  | 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:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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/).

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