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title: "lǎohǔ" means tiger and "lǎoshǔ" means mouse or rat; the lǎo (old) i… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: "lǎohǔ" means tiger and "lǎoshǔ" means mouse or rat; the lǎo (old) in them does not mean old. Who acts: lǎohǔ, lǎoshǔ, lǎo. 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 8

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"lǎohǔ" means tiger and "lǎoshǔ" means mouse or rat; the lǎo (old) in them does not mean old.

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**Who acts:** lǎohǔ, lǎoshǔ, lǎo · **What happens:** mean, not mean · **To what, where:** tiger, mouse

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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 (lǎohǔ, lǎoshǔ, lǎo), 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:8
# text = "lǎohǔ" means tiger and "lǎoshǔ" means mouse or rat; the lǎo (old) in them does not mean old.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	lǎohǔ	lǎohǔ	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	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lǎoshǔ	lǎoshǔ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lǎo	lǎo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
22	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | lǎohǔ | tiger |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | lǎoshǔ | mouse or rat |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | the lǎo in lǎoshǔ |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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