--- title: Tones turn animals into other things: māo (cat) is high and level, b… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: Tones turn animals into other things: māo (cat) is high and level, but máo rising is fur; niú (cow) is also slang for "awesome!"; yú (fish) sounds like the word for "plenty", so a whole fish is eaten at New Year. Who acts: Tones, māo, rising, niú. 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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 (Tones, māo, rising, niú), 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:3 # text = Tones turn animals into other things: māo (cat) is high and level, but máo rising is fur; niú (cow) is also slang for "awesome!"; yú (fish) sounds like the word for "plenty", so a whole fish is eaten at New Year. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 māo māo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 18 máo máo SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 niú niú NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 also also ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 awesome awesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 yú yú NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux:pass _ _ 54 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 55 at at ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 amod _ _ 57 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Tones | animals | | other things | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent animal=Theme into thing=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | present | māo | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | rising | fur | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | niú | slang | | | | for awesome | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** | present | yú | slang *not said here* | | | | like the word for plenty | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slang=Theme | | 6 | **eat** | present · passive | | a whole fish | | | at New Year | | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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