--- title: "yá" (rising) means tooth or teeth; "wǒ diào yá le!" is "my tooth fe… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: "yá" (rising) means tooth or teeth; "wǒ diào yá le!" is "my tooth fell out!"; in some Chinese families a lost bottom tooth is thrown onto the roof, not left for a fairy. Who acts: yá, tooth, Chinese families. 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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 (yá, tooth, Chinese families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:018-the-body.lesson:10 # text = "yá" (rising) means tooth or teeth; "wǒ diào yá le!" is "my tooth fell out!"; in some Chinese families a lost bottom tooth is thrown onto the roof, not left for a fairy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 018-the-body.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 yá yá NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 16 amod _ _ 14 diào diào X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat _ _ 15 yá yá X FW Foreign=Yes 13 flat _ _ 16 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 23 dislocated _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 30 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 38 onto onto ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:acl:relcl 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | yá | tooth or teeth | | | | in some Chinese families | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot tooth=Theme in family=Attribute | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my tooth | | | | | wǒ le *dislocated*; fall *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **throw** | present · passive | some Chinese families *not said here* | a lost bottom tooth | | the roof | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme onto roof=Destination | | 5 | **not** **leave** | participle | some Chinese families *not said here* | | | | | for a fairy | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for fairy=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chinese-street:018-the-body.lesson:10`. **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, R8-pos-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: [The body, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/9/) - next →: [The body, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/)