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title: "nǐ shǔ shénme?" asks your zodiac animal; you answer like "wǒ shǔ ló… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: "nǐ shǔ shénme?" asks your zodiac animal; you answer like "wǒ shǔ lóng", I'm a Dragon. Who acts: shǔ shénme, you, I. 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 15

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"nǐ shǔ shénme?" asks your zodiac animal; you answer like "wǒ shǔ lóng", I'm a Dragon.

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**Who acts:** shǔ shénme, you, I · **What happens:** ask, answer, be · **To what, where:** zodiac animal, Dragon

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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 (shǔ shénme, you, I), 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:15
# text = "nǐ shǔ shénme?" asks your zodiac animal; you answer like "wǒ shǔ lóng", I'm a Dragon.
# 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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
3	shǔ	shǔ	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	shénme	shénme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	zodiac	zodiac	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	wǒ	wǒ	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	shǔ	shǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lóng	lóng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | shǔ shénme |  | your zodiac animal |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  | like wǒ shǔ lóng | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | a Dragon |  |  |  |  | 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:15`.

**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 ×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/).

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