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title: "yǎnjing" means eyes; "bì shàng yǎnjing" means close your eyes; mock… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: "yǎnjing" means eyes; "bì shàng yǎnjing" means close your eyes; mocking eye shapes or pulling your eyes is racism. Who acts: yǎnjing, bì shàng yǎnjing, mocking. 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 ev
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# The body, sentence 6

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"yǎnjing" means eyes; "bì shàng yǎnjing" means close your eyes; mocking eye shapes or pulling your eyes is racism.

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**Who acts:** yǎnjing, bì shàng yǎnjing, mocking · **What happens:** mean, close, mock, pull, be · **To what, where:** eyes, eye shapes, racism · **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 (yǎnjing, bì shàng yǎnjing, mocking), 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:6
# text = "yǎnjing" means eyes; "bì shàng yǎnjing" means close your eyes; mocking eye shapes or pulling your eyes is racism.
# 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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	yǎnjing	yǎnjing	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	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	bì	bì	X	FW	_	10	flat:foreign	_	_
9	shàng	shàng	X	FW	_	10	flat:foreign	_	_
10	yǎnjing	yǎnjing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	xcomp	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	racism	racism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	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 | yǎnjing | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | bì shàng yǎnjing |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **close** *not said to happen* | infinitive | bì shàng yǎnjing *not said here* | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **mock** | gerund |  | eye shapes |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 5 | **pull** | gerund |  | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | mocking | racism |  |  |  |  | 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:6`.

**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 ×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/).

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