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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 (xiǎo pìhái, adults, adult), 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:15 # text = "xiǎo pìhái" means brat or little pest; adults say it about naughty children and it is a bit rude. # 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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 xiǎo xiǎo X FW _ 3 compound _ _ 3 pìhái pìhái 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 brat brat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 naughty naughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | xiǎo pìhái | brat or little pest | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brat=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | adults | pìhái | | | | about naughty children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | adult | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; rude *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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. **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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/14/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)