--- title: tài niú le («TIGH NYO luh», literally «too cow») is kids' and teenag… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics description: tài niú le («TIGH NYO luh», literally «too cow») is kids' and teenagers' slang for awesome; to grandparents it may sound odd or cheeky, and niú alone is cow. Who acts: niú le, le. 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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 (niú le, le), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:16 # text = tài niú le («TIGH NYO luh», literally «too cow») is kids' and teenagers' slang for awesome; to grandparents it may sound odd or cheeky, and niú alone is cow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 tài tài X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ 2 niú niú X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 3 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 TIGH tigh X GW _ 3 dep _ _ 7 NYO NYO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 goeswith _ _ 8 luh luh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 literally literally ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 dep _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 18 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ' 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 teenagers teenager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 awesome awesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 32 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 niú niú ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 alone alone ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=assert, hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | niú le | kids and teenagers's slang and cow | | | | for awesome | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | may | le | | | | | to grandparents; odd *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to grandparent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | niú le *not said here* | cow | | | | alone *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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:16`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/15/) - next →: [Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/)