--- title: "chòuměi" means vain, a show-off about looks; chòu (smelly) appears… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "chòuměi" means vain, a show-off about looks; chòu (smelly) appears in many teasing words meaning "too pleased with yourself". Who acts: chòuměi, chòu, many teasing words. 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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 (chòuměi, chòu, many teasing words), 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:11 # text = "chòuměi" means vain, a show-off about looks; chòu (smelly) appears in many teasing words meaning "too pleased with yourself". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 chòuměi chòuměi NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 6 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 chòu chòu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 smelly smelly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 18 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 teasing teasing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obl _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | chòuměi | vain | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vain=Topic | | 2 | **appear** | present | chòu | | | many teasing words | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location | | 3 | **mean** | gerund | many teasing words *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:11`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/10/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)