--- title: Tones turn weather into other things: yǔ (rain) dips but yú (fish) r… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics description: Tones turn weather into other things: yǔ (rain) dips but yú (fish) rises; xuě (snow) dips but xué (study) rises; lěng (cold) dips but lèng falls and means dazed. Who acts: Tones, yǔ. 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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 (Tones, yǔ), 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:2 # text = Tones turn weather into other things: yǔ (rain) dips but yú (fish) rises; xuě (snow) dips but xué (study) rises; lěng (cold) dips but lèng falls and means dazed. # 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): no change 1 Tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 yǔ yǔ NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 dips dip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 yú yú NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 rises rise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 acl:relcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 xuě xuě NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 dips dip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 xué xué NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 rises rise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 32 lěng lěng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 34 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 dips dip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 lèng lèng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 39 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 ccomp _ _ 42 dazed daze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 xcomp _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Tones | weather | | other things | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent weather=Theme into thing=Trajectory | | 2 | **rise** | | yǔ rain dips but yú | other things *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lěng** | gerund | | cold dips | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lèng** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | present | Tones *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | Tones *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **daze** *not said to happen* | participle | Tones *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Weather and what Granny says to wear, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/0/) - next →: [Weather and what Granny says to wear, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/)