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title: "xióngmāo" means panda, literally "bear-cat"; in Taiwan some people… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: "xióngmāo" means panda, literally "bear-cat"; in Taiwan some people say māoxióng. Who acts: xióngmāo, people. 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 7

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"xióngmāo" means panda, literally "bear-cat"; in Taiwan some people say māoxióng.

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**Who acts:** xióngmāo, people · **What happens:** mean, say · **To what, where:** panda, māoxióng, Taiwan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (xióngmāo, people), 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:7
# text = "xióngmāo" means panda, literally "bear-cat"; in Taiwan some people say māoxióng.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	xióngmāo	xióngmāo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	māoxióng	māoxióng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | xióngmāo | panda |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panda=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some people | māoxióng |  | Taiwan |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent māoxióng=Theme in taiwan=Manner |

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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:7`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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