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title: "hǎo rè a" means "it's so hot!"; rè is hot weather, while tàng is to… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: "hǎo rè a" means "it's so hot!"; rè is hot weather, while tàng is too hot to touch, like soup or a pan. Who acts: hǎo rè, weather, rè, tàng. 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 pragmati
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 6

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"hǎo rè a" means "it's so hot!"; rè is hot weather, while tàng is too hot to touch, like soup or a pan.

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**Who acts:** hǎo rè, weather, rè, tàng · **What happens:** mean, be, touch · **To what, where:** hot weather, soup · **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 (hǎo rè, weather, rè, tàng), 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:6
# text = "hǎo rè a" means "it's so hot!"; rè is hot weather, while tàng is too hot to touch, like soup or a pan.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
3	rè	rè	X	FW	_	6	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	rè	rè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	tàng	tàng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | hǎo rè |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | weather |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | rè | hot weather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | tàng |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **touch** | to-infinitive | tàng *not said here* | soup or a pan |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soup=Co-Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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