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title: "lǎnchóng" means lazybones, literally "lazy worm", and parents use i… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics
description: "lǎnchóng" means lazybones, literally "lazy worm", and parents use it fondly on Sunday mornings. Who acts: lǎnchóng, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 9

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"lǎnchóng" means lazybones, literally "lazy worm", and parents use it fondly on Sunday mornings.

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**Who acts:** lǎnchóng, parents · **What happens:** mean, use · **To what, where:** lazybones, lǎnchóng

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lǎnchóng, parents), 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:9
# text = "lǎnchóng" means lazybones, literally "lazy worm", and parents use it fondly on Sunday mornings.
# 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	lǎnchóng	lǎnchóng	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	lazybones	lazybone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | lǎnchóng | lazybones |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lazybone=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | present | parents | lǎnchóng |  |  | morning | fondly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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 ×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/).

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