--- title: māma mà mǎ ma? means «is Mum scolding the horse?», a famous tone gam… — The four tones: same sound, different meaning · tree and pragmatics description: māma mà mǎ ma? means «is Mum scolding the horse?», a famous tone game friends use to test you, for fun and not to mock. Who acts: māma, Mum, game friends. 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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 (māma, Mum, game friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:002-the-four-tones.lesson:11 # text = māma mà mǎ ma? means «is Mum scolding the horse?», a famous tone game friends use to test you, for fun and not to mock. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 002-the-four-tones.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 māma māma X FW Foreign=Yes 6 nsubj _ _ 2 mà mà X GW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 mǎ mǎ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 ma ma X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 scolding scold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 18 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 mock mock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | māma | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **scold** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Mum | the horse | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | a game friends | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **test** | to-infinitive | a game friends *not said here* | you | | | | for fun | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for fun=Attribute | | 5 | **not** **mock** | to-infinitive | a game friends *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:002-the-four-tones.lesson:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [The four tones: same sound, different…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/9/) - next →: [The four tones: same sound, different…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/)