--- title: Tones turn body parts into numbers and food: ěr (dipping) is in ěrdu… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: Tones turn body parts into numbers and food: ěr (dipping) is in ěrduo, ears, but èr (falling) is two; jiǎo is a foot, but jiǎozi are dumplings and jiào is "to be called". Who acts: Tones, ěr, jiǎozi. A sentence of the lesson «The body» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # The body, sentence 2 Tones turn body parts into numbers and food: ěr (dipping) is in ěrduo, ears, but èr (falling) is two; jiǎo is a foot, but jiǎozi are dumplings and jiào is "to be called". **Who acts:** Tones, ěr, jiǎozi · **What happens:** turn, be · **To what, where:** body parts, numbers, ěrduo, two, foot, dumplings · **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 (Tones, ěr, jiǎozi), 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:2 # text = Tones turn body parts into numbers and food: ěr (dipping) is in ěrduo, ears, but èr (falling) is two; jiǎo is a foot, but jiǎozi are dumplings and jiào is "to be called". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 10 ěr ěr NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 dipping dipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 ěrduo ěrduo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 èr èr NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 falling falling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 jiǎo jiǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 31 dep _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 34 jiǎozi jiǎozi X FW Foreign=Yes 36 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 dumplings dumpling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 jiào jiào NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Tones | body parts | | numbers and food | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | ěr | | | ěrduo and ears but èr | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | two | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a foot | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | jiǎozi | dumplings and jiào | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present · passive | | | | | | call *property* | 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:018-the-body.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 ×1, R7-rel-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, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/0/) - next →: [The body, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/)