--- title: "dǎnxiǎoguǐ" means scaredy-cat, literally "small-gall ghost"; the an… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: "dǎnxiǎoguǐ" means scaredy-cat, literally "small-gall ghost"; the answer is "wǒ cái bú pà!", but daring someone with it can push them into something dangerous. Who acts: dǎnxiǎoguǐ, answer. 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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 (dǎnxiǎoguǐ, answer), 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:7 # text = "dǎnxiǎoguǐ" means scaredy-cat, literally "small-gall ghost"; the answer is "wǒ cái bú pà!", but daring someone with it can push them into something dangerous. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 dǎnxiǎoguǐ dǎnxiǎoguǐ 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 scaredy scaredy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 literally literally ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 gall gall NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 4 parataxis _ _ 22 cái cái X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat:foreign _ _ 23 bú bú X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat:foreign _ _ 24 pà pà X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat:foreign _ _ 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 29 daring dare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 30 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 with with SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obl _ _ 38 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:xcomp 39 . . 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 | dǎnxiǎoguǐ | scaredy cat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dare** | gerund | dǎnxiǎoguǐ *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 3 | **push** | can | answer | friends *= friend* | | something | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into something=Destination | 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. 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