--- title: "bízi" means nose; "liú bítì" is a runny nose, and "wā bíshǐ" (picki… — The body · tree and pragmatics description: "bízi" means nose; "liú bítì" is a runny nose, and "wā bíshǐ" (picking your nose) is a word kids find hilarious. Who acts: bízi, bítì, bíshǐ, kids. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The body, sentence 8 "bízi" means nose; "liú bítì" is a runny nose, and "wā bíshǐ" (picking your nose) is a word kids find hilarious. **Who acts:** bízi, bítì, bíshǐ, kids · **What happens:** mean, liú, be, wā, pick, find · **To what, where:** nose, runny nose, bíshǐ, word · **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 (bízi, bítì, bíshǐ, kids), 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:8 # text = "bízi" means nose; "liú bítì" is a runny nose, and "wā bíshǐ" (picking your nose) is a word kids find hilarious. # 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 bízi bízi NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 liú liú VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 bítì bítì NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 runny runny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 wā wā VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 bíshǐ bíshǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 29 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 hilarious hilarious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **mean** | present | bízi | nose | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Topic | | 2 | **liú** *in a quote* | past | bízi *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | bítì | a runny nose | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wā** *in a quote* | past | bízi *not said here* | bíshǐ | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pick** | gerund | bíshǐ *not said here* | your nose | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | | a word | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | present | kids | a word *not said here* | | | | hilarious *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | 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. 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