--- title: Lín trips over the football and his mate grins "bèndàn!" — "BUN-DAHN… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: Lín trips over the football and his mate grins "bèndàn!" — "BUN-DAHN", literally "stupid egg" — and Lín grins back "nǐ cái shì bèndàn!", you're the dummy!: that is teasing between friends, and both of them are laughing. Who acts: Lín, you, that, both. 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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 (Lín, you, that, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:0 # text = Lín trips over the football and his mate grins "bèndàn!" — "BUN-DAHN", literally "stupid egg" — and Lín grins back "nǐ cái shì bèndàn!", you're the dummy!: that is teasing between friends, and both of them are laughing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 023-friendly-teasing.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 trips trip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss 8 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 grins grin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 bèndàn bèndàn X FW Foreign=Yes 9 obj _ _ 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 14 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 BUN bun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 DAHN DAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 literally literally ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 grins grin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 29 obj _ _ 33 cái cái X FW Foreign=Yes 32 flat:foreign _ _ 34 shì shì X FW Foreign=Yes 32 flat:foreign _ _ 35 bèndàn bèndàn X FW Foreign=Yes 32 flat:foreign _ _ 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 dummy dummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 acl:relcl _ _ 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 44 : : PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 45 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 47 nsubj _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 48 between between ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 52 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 56 nsubj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nmod _ _ 55 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 conj _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trip** | present | Lín | | | the football | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over football=Trajectory | | 2 | **grin** | present | Lín *not said here* | bèndàn | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bèndàn=Theme | | 3 | **grin back** | present | Lín | nǐ | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nǐ=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | you | the dummy | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tease** | present · progressive | that | | | | | between friends | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **laugh** | present · progressive | both | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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/). - ← previous: [Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/22-days-the-clock-and-birthdays/16/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)