--- title: kǎoshì («KAOW-SHR») means a test or exam; kǎo de zěnmeyàng? (how did… — School words · tree and pragmatics description: kǎoshì («KAOW-SHR») means a test or exam; kǎo de zěnmeyàng? (how did the test go?) is the first thing many Chinese parents ask. Who acts: kǎoshì, test, many Chinese parents. 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(how did the test go?) is the first thing many Chinese parents ask. **Who acts:** kǎoshì, test, many Chinese parents · **What happens:** mean, zěnmeyàng, go, be, ask · **To what, where:** test, first thing This is a sentence of the lesson «School words» 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 (kǎoshì, test, many Chinese parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:015-school-words.lesson:13 # text = kǎoshì («KAOW-SHR») means a test or exam; kǎo de zěnmeyàng? (how did the test go?) is the first thing many Chinese parents ask. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 015-school-words.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 1 kǎoshì kǎoshì PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 KAOW KAOW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 SHR shr NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 exam exam NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 kǎo kǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 17 flat:foreign _ _ 16 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 15 flat _ _ 17 zěnmeyàng zěnmeyàng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 nsubj _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | kǎoshì | a test or exam | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Topic | | 2 | **zěnmeyàng** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past · do-support | the test | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | | the first thing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | many Chinese parents | the first thing *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | 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. 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