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title: "tuǐ" means leg; "wǒ de tuǐ suān le" is "my legs are aching"; jītuǐ… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: "tuǐ" means leg; "wǒ de tuǐ suān le" is "my legs are aching"; jītuǐ (chicken leg) is a favourite food. Who acts: tuǐ, legs, jītuǐ. 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.
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# The body, sentence 14

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"tuǐ" means leg; "wǒ de tuǐ suān le" is "my legs are aching"; jītuǐ (chicken leg) is a favourite food.

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**Who acts:** tuǐ, legs, jītuǐ · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** leg, favourite food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tuǐ, legs, jītuǐ), 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:14
# text = "tuǐ" means leg; "wǒ de tuǐ suān le" is "my legs are aching"; jītuǐ (chicken leg) is a favourite food.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	tuǐ	tuǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	discourse	_	_
9	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat	_	_
10	tuǐ	tuǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat	_	_
11	suān	suān	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	flat	_	_
12	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	aching	ache	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	appos	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	jītuǐ	jītuǐ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
24	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | tuǐ | leg |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present · progressive | my legs |  |  |  |  | ache *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | jītuǐ | a favourite food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): 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/).

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