--- title: And lǎoyīng zhuō xiǎojī (eagle catches the chicks) has a hen guardin… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! · tree and pragmatics description: And lǎoyīng zhuō xiǎojī (eagle catches the chicks) has a hen guarding a wobbly line of chicks from the eagle — play it on grass, because the wobbly line often tumbles over. Who acts: eagle, lǎoyīng, hen, wobbly line. 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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 (eagle, lǎoyīng, hen, wobbly line), 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:4 # text = And lǎoyīng zhuō xiǎojī (eagle catches the chicks) has a hen guarding a wobbly line of chicks from the eagle — play it on grass, because the wobbly line often tumbles over. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 lǎoyīng lǎoyīng PROPN NNP _ 11 nsubj _ _ 3 zhuō zhuō PROPN NNP _ 2 flat _ _ 4 xiǎojī xiǎojī PROPN NNP _ 2 flat _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 6 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 guarding guard VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 — - PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 often often ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 tumbles tumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 35 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | present | eagle | the chicks | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | lǎoyīng | a hen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient | | 3 | **guard** | gerund | a hen *not said here* | a wobbly line of chicks from the eagle | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Beneficiary | | 4 | **play** | infinitive | | eagle | | grass | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **tumble over** | present | the wobbly line | | | | | often, over *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.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): 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. 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