--- title: "shǎguā" means silly-billy, literally "silly melon"; said with a smi… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "shǎguā" means silly-billy, literally "silly melon"; said with a smile, by parents to small kids or friends to friends, it is almost cuddly, while "shǎ" alone can be harsher. Who acts: shǎguā, shǎ. 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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 (shǎguā, shǎ), 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:6 # text = "shǎguā" means silly-billy, literally "silly melon"; said with a smile, by parents to small kids or friends to friends, it is almost cuddly, while "shǎ" alone can be harsher. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 shǎguā shǎguā 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 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 billy Billy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 literally literally ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 melon melon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 almost almost ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 cuddly cuddly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 shǎ shǎ NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 alone alone ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 42 harsher harsh ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 advcl _ _ 43 . . 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 | shǎguā | silly billy | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent billy=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | shǎguā *not said here* | | | | | with a smile; by parents to small kids or friends to friends | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner | | 3 | **is** | present | shǎguā | | | | | almost, cuddly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | can | shǎ | | | | | harsh *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:6`. **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 ×3, 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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/5/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)