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title: "guā fēng le" means "it's windy", literally "wind is blowing"; fēng… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: "guā fēng le" means "it's windy", literally "wind is blowing"; fēng is also in fēngzheng, kite. Who acts: guā fēng, xià yǔ le, wind, fēng. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 10

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"guā fēng le" means "it's windy", literally "wind is blowing"; fēng is also in fēngzheng, kite.

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**Who acts:** guā fēng, xià yǔ le, wind, fēng · **What happens:** mean, be, blow · **To what, where:** fēngzheng · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» 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 (guā fēng, xià yǔ le, wind, fēng), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:10
# text = "guā fēng le" means "it's windy", literally "wind is blowing"; fēng is also in fēngzheng, kite.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	guā	guā	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
3	fēng	fēng	X	FW	_	6	nsubj	_	_
4	le	le	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	fēng	fēng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	fēngzheng	fēngzheng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | guā fēng |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | xià yǔ le *= le* |  |  |  |  | windy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **blow** *in a quote* | present · progressive | wind |  |  |  |  | literally *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | fēng |  |  | fēngzheng and kite |  |  | tree rules |

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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:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:10`.

**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, 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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