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title: "hóuzi" means monkey; the Monkey King of the stories is Sūn Wùkōng,… — Animals and "what animal are you?" · tree and pragmatics
description: "hóuzi" means monkey; the Monkey King of the stories is Sūn Wùkōng, and "nǐ zhēn hóu!" teases a cheeky, fidgety kid. Who acts: hóuzi, Monkey King. 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 prag
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# Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 9

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"hóuzi" means monkey; the Monkey King of the stories is Sūn Wùkōng, and "nǐ zhēn hóu!" teases a cheeky, fidgety kid.

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**Who acts:** hóuzi, Monkey King · **What happens:** mean, be, tease · **To what, where:** monkey, Sūn, cheeky fidgety kid

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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 (hóuzi, Monkey King), 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:9
# text = "hóuzi" means monkey; the Monkey King of the stories is Sūn Wùkōng, and "nǐ zhēn hóu!" teases a cheeky, fidgety kid.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	hóuzi	hóuzi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Sūn	Sūn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	Wùkōng	Wùkōng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	cc	_	_
20	zhēn	zhēn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	discourse	_	_
21	hóu	hóu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
24	teases	tease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	fidgety	fidgety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | hóuzi | monkey |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Monkey King of the stories | Sūn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tease** | present | the Monkey King of the stories *not said here* | a cheeky fidgety kid |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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