--- title: Tones trick the ear here: è (hungry) falls like a short "uh!", but é… — Hungry, tired, shy, excited · tree and pragmatics description: Tones trick the ear here: è (hungry) falls like a short "uh!", but é rising is "goose" — so a wobbly voice can announce "I'm a goose" instead. Who acts: Tones, è, é rising, wobbly voice. 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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 (Tones, è, é rising, wobbly voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:2 # text = Tones trick the ear here: è (hungry) falls like a short "uh!", but é rising is "goose" — so a wobbly voice can announce "I'm a goose" instead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 trick trick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 è è NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 uh uh INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 é é ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 announce announce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:parataxis 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 instead instead ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **trick** | present | Tones | the ear | | here | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 2 | **fall** | present | è | | | | | like a short | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | é rising | goose | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | can | a wobbly voice | | | | | instead *property* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a wobbly voice *= voice* | a goose | | | | | 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:017-hungry-tired-shy-excited.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Hungry, tired, shy, excited, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/1/) - next →: [Hungry, tired, shy, excited, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/17-hungry-tired-shy-excited/)