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title: "niú" (rising) means cow or ox, and in slang "tài niú le!" means "aw… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: "niú" (rising) means cow or ox, and in slang "tài niú le!" means "awesome!". Who acts: niú, niú le. A sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 12

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"niú" (rising) means cow or ox, and in slang "tài niú le!" means "awesome!".

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**Who acts:** niú, niú le · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** cow

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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 (niú, niú le), 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:12
# text = "niú" (rising) means cow or ox, and in slang "tài niú le!" means "awesome!".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	niú	niú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rising	rising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	tài	tài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	dep	_	_
17	niú	niú	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	awesome	awesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | niú | cow or ox |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | niú le |  |  |  |  | in slang | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in slang=Attribute |

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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:12`.

**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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