--- title: Lín asks "nǐ shǔ shénme?" — "nee SHOO SHUN-muh", literally "what do… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: Lín asks "nǐ shǔ shénme?" — "nee SHOO SHUN-muh", literally "what do you belong to?" — and he means your zodiac animal, the animal of the Chinese year you were born in. Who acts: Lín, nee SHOO, Chinese year. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lín, nee SHOO, Chinese year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:0 # text = Lín asks "nǐ shǔ shénme?" — "nee SHOO SHUN-muh", literally "what do you belong to?" — and he means your zodiac animal, the animal of the Chinese year you were born in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.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 ×2 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 2 dep _ _ 5 shǔ shǔ X FW _ 6 compound _ _ 6 shénme shénme NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 — - PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 nee nee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 SHOO SHOO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 13 SHUN shun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 15 muh muh NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 literally literally ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obl _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 belong belong VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 27 — - PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 zodiac zodiac NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 in in ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Lín | shǔ shénme | nee SHOO | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shun** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lín *not said here* | muh | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent muh=Location | | 3 | **belong** *in a quote* | present · do-support | nee SHOO *= shoo* | | | | | literally *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | Lín | your zodiac animal | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | | 5 | **bear in** | past · passive | the Chinese year *not said here* | you | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:0`. **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 ×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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/18-the-body/16/) - next →: [Animals and "what animal are you?", 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/)