--- title: "shǒu" (dipping) means hand; "xǐ shǒu" means wash your hands, before… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: "shǒu" (dipping) means hand; "xǐ shǒu" means wash your hands, before eating; shòu (falling) means thin. Who acts: shǒu, xǐ. A sentence of the lesson «The body» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [The body](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/) / 11 # The body, sentence 11 "shǒu" (dipping) means hand; "xǐ shǒu" means wash your hands, before eating; shòu (falling) means thin. **Who acts:** shǒu, xǐ · **What happens:** dip, mean, wash, eat, fall · **To what, where:** hand, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The body» 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 (shǒu, xǐ), 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:11 # text = "shǒu" (dipping) means hand; "xǐ shǒu" means wash your hands, before eating; shòu (falling) means thin. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 shǒu shǒu NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 dipping dip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 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 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 xǐ xǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 12 shǒu shǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 shòu shòu X FW Foreign=Yes 7 obj _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 27 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | shǒu | hand | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | xǐ | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **wash** | infinitive | | your hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **mean** | present | | | | | | thin *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [The body, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/10/) - next →: [The body, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/)