--- title: "yú" (rising) means fish; it sounds like the word for "surplus", so… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: "yú" (rising) means fish; it sounds like the word for "surplus", so a whole fish is eaten at New Year for "plenty every year", and some families never flip the fish over, like a boat capsizing. Who acts: yú, families. 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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 (yú, families), 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:13 # text = "yú" (rising) means fish; it sounds like the word for "surplus", so a whole fish is eaten at New Year for "plenty every year", and some families never flip the fish over, like a boat capsizing. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 yú yú 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 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 surplus surplus NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 New New PROPN NNP _ 28 flat _ _ 28 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:unmarked _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 flip flip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 over over ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 like like SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:nsubj 48 capsizing capsize VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | yú | fish | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | | 2 | **sound** | present | yú | | | | | like the word for surplus | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **eat** | present · passive | | a whole fish | | | at New Year | for plenty every year | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **flip over** | present | some families | the fish | | | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 5 | **capsize** | gerund | some families *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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