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title: "zuǐba" means mouth; the dentist says "zhāng zuǐ", open your mouth;… — The body · tree and pragmatics
description: "zuǐba" means mouth; the dentist says "zhāng zuǐ", open your mouth; zuǐ also turns up in a rude "shut up!", and the soft way is "bié shuō le". Who acts: zuǐba, dentist, zuǐ, soft way. A sentence of the lesson «The body» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# The body, sentence 9

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"zuǐba" means mouth; the dentist says "zhāng zuǐ", open your mouth; zuǐ also turns up in a rude "shut up!", and the soft way is "bié shuō le".

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**Who acts:** zuǐba, dentist, zuǐ, soft way · **What happens:** mean, say, zhāng, open, turn up, shut up · **To what, where:** mouth, zuǐ, rude, bié shuō le · **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 (zuǐba, dentist, zuǐ, soft way), 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:9
# text = "zuǐba" means mouth; the dentist says "zhāng zuǐ", open your mouth; zuǐ also turns up in a rude "shut up!", and the soft way is "bié shuō le".
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	zuǐba	zuǐba	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	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
11	zhāng	zhāng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
12	zuǐ	zuǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	zuǐ	zuǐ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
38	bié	bié	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	shuō	shuō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | zuǐba | mouth |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the dentist |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **zhāng** *in a quote* | gerund |  | zuǐ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive |  | your mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 5 | **turn up** | present | zuǐ |  |  | a rude |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rude=Location |
| 6 | **shut up** *in a quote* | participle | zuǐ *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the soft way | bié shuō le |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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