--- title: "māo" (high and level) means cat; máo (rising) means fur, and also t… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics description: "māo" (high and level) means cat; máo (rising) means fur, and also the "10p" coin of Chinese money. Who acts: māo, máo. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Animals and "what animal are you?"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/) / 6 # Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 6 "māo" (high and level) means cat; máo (rising) means fur, and also the "10p" coin of Chinese money. **Who acts:** māo, máo · **What happens:** mean, coin · **To what, where:** cat, fur, Chinese money 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 (māo, máo), 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:6 # text = "māo" (high and level) means cat; máo (rising) means fur, and also the "10p" coin of Chinese money. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 māo māo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 máo máo NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 rising rising NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | māo | cat | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | máo | fur | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Topic | | 3 | **coin** | | | Chinese money | | | | | nom coin «possession transitive»: of=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:6`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Animals and "what animal are you?", 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/5/) - next →: [Animals and "what animal are you?", 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/19-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal/)