--- title: "xiǎopéngyǒu" means little kid, literally "little friend"; from a te… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "xiǎopéngyǒu" means little kid, literally "little friend"; from a teacher it is sweet, but from a big kid "nǐ shì xiǎopéngyǒu!" means "you're too little to play". Who acts: xiǎopéngyǒu, kid, you. 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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 (xiǎopéngyǒu, kid, you), 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:14 # text = "xiǎopéngyǒu" means little kid, literally "little friend"; from a teacher it is sweet, but from a big kid "nǐ shì xiǎopéngyǒu!" means "you're too little to play". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 xiǎopéngyǒu xiǎopéngyǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 literally literally ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 28 flat:foreign _ _ 28 shì shì X FW Foreign=Yes 25 conj _ _ 29 xiǎopéngyǒu xiǎopéngyǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 28 flat _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:xcomp 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 41 . . 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 | xiǎopéngyǒu | little kid | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | kid | | | | | from a teacher; sweet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | from a big kid | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | little *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **play** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:14`. **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 ×2, 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: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/13/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)