Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate, sentence 18

nǐ qù nǎr? («nee CHYOO nar») means «where are you off to?»; aunties use it as a street hello, so a vague answer like chūqù wánr (going out to play) is fine.

Who acts: nǐ, you, aunties, vague answer · What happens: mean, be, use, go out, play · To what, where: » · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» 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 (nǐ, you, aunties, vague answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	12 means	nsubj
2	qù	qù	X	_	1 nǐ	flat:foreign
3	nǎr	nǎr	X	_	2 qù	goeswith
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 nǐ	punct
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 »	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 »	punct
7	nee	nee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 »	amod
8	CHYOO	CHYOO	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 »	compound
9	nar	nar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 »	amod
10	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	nsubj
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 »	punct
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 where	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 means	ccomp
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 where	cop
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 where	nsubj
17	off	off	ADP	_	14 where	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	14 where	case
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 »	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 where	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
22	aunties	auntie	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 use	nsubj
23	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 use	obj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 street	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 street	det
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 use	obl
28	hello	hello	INTJ	_	23 use	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 fine	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	44 fine	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 answer	det
32	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 answer	amod
33	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fine	nsubj
34	like	like	SCONJ	_	35 chūqù	mark
35	chūqù	chūqù	X	ExtPos=PROPN	33 answer	appos
36	wánr	wánr	X	_	35 chūqù	goeswith
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 going	punct
38	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 chūqù	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 going	compound:prt
40	to	to	PART	_	41 play	mark
41	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 going	xcomp
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 going	punct
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 fine	cop
44	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 means	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	nǐ			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	you		where property	tree rules
3	use	present	aunties	»	as a street	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as street=Attribute
4	go out	gerund	a vague answer not said here			tree rules
5	play	to-infinitive	a vague answer not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	a vague answer		fine 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, 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:001-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate.lesson:18.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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