--- title: "dài sǎn" means "take an umbrella"; an umbrella is an unlucky presen… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics description: "dài sǎn" means "take an umbrella"; an umbrella is an unlucky present for some people, because sǎn sounds like sàn, to split up. Who acts: dài sǎn, umbrella, sǎn. 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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 (dài sǎn, umbrella, sǎn), 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:14 # text = "dài sǎn" means "take an umbrella"; an umbrella is an unlucky present for some people, because sǎn sounds like sàn, to split up. # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 dài dài X FW _ 3 compound _ _ 3 sǎn sǎn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 umbrella umbrella NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 umbrella umbrella NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 24 mark _ _ 23 sǎn sǎn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sàn sàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 split split VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | dài sǎn | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a umbrella | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a umbrella | a unlucky present | | | | for some people | tree rules | | 4 | **sound** | present | sǎn | | | | | like sàn | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **split up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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:020-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear.lesson:14`. **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. 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