--- title: "bèndàn" means silly or dummy, literally "stupid egg"; the cheeky an… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "bèndàn" means silly or dummy, literally "stupid egg"; the cheeky answer is "nǐ cái shì bèndàn!", and it is rude to a struggling younger child or to an adult. Who acts: bèndàn. 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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 (bèndàn), 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:5 # text = "bèndàn" means silly or dummy, literally "stupid egg"; the cheeky answer is "nǐ cái shì bèndàn!", and it is rude to a struggling younger child or to an adult. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 bèndàn bèndàn 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 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 dummy dummy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 literally literally ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 nǐ nǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 17 conj _ _ 21 cái cái X FW Foreign=Yes 20 flat _ _ 22 shì shì X FW Foreign=Yes 20 flat _ _ 23 bèndàn bèndàn X FW Foreign=Yes 20 flat _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=35:cc 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 . . 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 | bèndàn | silly | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silly=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | bèndàn | | | | | to a struggling younger child or a adult; rude *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **struggle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «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. 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