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title: "zhū" (high) means pig; Peppa Pig is Xiǎo Zhū Pèiqí, and "bèn zhū" (… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: "zhū" (high) means pig; Peppa Pig is Xiǎo Zhū Pèiqí, and "bèn zhū" (stupid pig) is light between friends but an insult from a stranger. Who acts: zhū, Peppa Pig, bèn zhū. A sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 11

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"zhū" (high) means pig; Peppa Pig is Xiǎo Zhū Pèiqí, and "bèn zhū" (stupid pig) is light between friends but an insult from a stranger.

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**Who acts:** zhū, Peppa Pig, bèn zhū · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** pig, Xiǎo, light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» 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 (zhū, Peppa Pig, bèn zhū), 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:11
# text = "zhū" (high) means pig; Peppa Pig is Xiǎo Zhū Pèiqí, and "bèn zhū" (stupid pig) is light between friends but an insult from a stranger.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	zhū	zhū	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Peppa	Peppa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Xiǎo	Xiǎo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
14	Zhū	Zhū	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	Pèiqí	Pèiqí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	bèn	bèn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	zhū	zhū	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
23	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | zhū | pig |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Peppa Pig | Xiǎo and light but a insult from a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | bèn zhū | light but a insult from a stranger |  |  |  | between friends | 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:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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