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title: "hǎo lěng" means "it's so cold!", and a parent answers "chuān yīfu!"… — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: "hǎo lěng" means "it's so cold!", and a parent answers "chuān yīfu!", put something on; lèng (falling) means dazed or blank. Who acts: hǎo lěng, lěng, parent, lèng. A sentence of the lesson «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Weather and what Granny says to wear, sentence 7

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"hǎo lěng" means "it's so cold!", and a parent answers "chuān yīfu!", put something on; lèng (falling) means dazed or blank.

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**Who acts:** hǎo lěng, lěng, parent, lèng · **What happens:** mean, be, answer, put on · **To what, where:** chuān, something · **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 lěng, lěng, parent, lèng), 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:7
# text = "hǎo lěng" means "it's so cold!", and a parent answers "chuān yīfu!", put something on; lèng (falling) means dazed or blank.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	_	3	flat:foreign	_	_
3	lěng	lěng	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	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
16	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	chuān	chuān	NOUN	FW	_	17	obj	_	_
20	yīfu	yīfu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	lèng	lèng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
33	dazed	daze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 lěng |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | lěng |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | a parent | chuān |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chuān=Eventuality |
| 4 | **put on** | infinitive | a parent *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent something=Goal |
| 5 | **mean** | present | lèng |  |  |  |  | daze *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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