--- title: "pìgu" means bottom or bum; it is a childish word, not a rude one, a… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: "pìgu" means bottom or bum; it is a childish word, not a rude one, and "fàng pì" (to fart) makes every playground laugh. Who acts: pìgu, playground. 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/15/) [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/) / 15 # The body, sentence 15 "pìgu" means bottom or bum; it is a childish word, not a rude one, and "fàng pì" (to fart) makes every playground laugh. **Who acts:** pìgu, playground · **What happens:** mean, be, fàng, fart, make, laugh · **To what, where:** bottom, childish word, pì, playground · **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 (pìgu, playground), 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:15 # text = "pìgu" means bottom or bum; it is a childish word, not a rude one, and "fàng pì" (to fart) makes every playground laugh. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 pìgu pìgu 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 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bum bum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 childish childish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 fàng fàng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 nsubj:outer _ _ 23 pì pì NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 fart fart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | pìgu | bottom or bum | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | pìgu | a childish word and a rude one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fàng** *in a quote* | gerund | | pì | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fart** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | | every playground | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **laugh** | infinitive | every playground *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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: [The body, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/14/) - next →: [The body, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/)