--- title: "gǒu" (dipping) means dog; xiǎo gǒu (puppy) is sweet, but calling a… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: "gǒu" (dipping) means dog; xiǎo gǒu (puppy) is sweet, but calling a person a dog is a real insult. Who acts: gǒu, xiǎo, person, calling. 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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 (gǒu, xiǎo, person, calling), 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:5 # text = "gǒu" (dipping) means dog; xiǎo gǒu (puppy) is sweet, but calling a person a dog is a real insult. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 gǒu gǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 7 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 xiǎo xiǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 16 nsubj _ _ 11 gǒu gǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 10 flat _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | gǒu | dog | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | xiǎo | | | | | sweet *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | gerund | a person | a dog | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | calling | a real insult | | | | | tree rules | 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:5`. **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 ×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. 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