--- title: tóngxué («TONG-shweh», both rising) means classmate, a little more f… — School words · tree and pragmatics description: tóngxué («TONG-shweh», both rising) means classmate, a little more formal than péngyou (friend); a classmate is not always a friend. Who acts: tóngxué, classmate. 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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 (tóngxué, classmate), 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:9 # text = tóngxué («TONG-shweh», both rising) means classmate, a little more formal than péngyou (friend); a classmate is not always a friend. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 tóngxué tóngxué PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 TONG tong NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 shweh shweh NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 péngyou péngyou X FW Foreign=Yes 18 obl _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | tóngxué | classmate | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent classmate=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a classmate | a friend | | | | always *property* | 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:015-school-words.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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [School words, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/8/) - next →: [School words, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/)