In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 10

gāi nǐ le («GUY nee luh») means your turn; gāi means should, so the same words can also mean «serves you right!», and the tone of voice tells you which.

Who acts: le, gāi, same words, tone · What happens: mean, serve, tell, intonate · To what, where: turn, you, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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 (le, gāi, same words, tone), 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	gāi	gāi	X	Foreign=Yes	3 le	dep
2	nǐ	nǐ	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 le	det
3	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 nee	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 nee	punct
6	GUY	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nee	nsubj
7	nee	nee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 le	appos
8	luh	luh	INTJ	_	9 »	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 nee	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 nee	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 turn	nmod:poss
13	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
15	gāi	gāi	X	Foreign=Yes	16 means	nsubj
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 means	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mean	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	25 mean	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 words	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 words	amod
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mean	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 mean	aux
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 mean	advmod
25	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	parataxis
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 serves	punct
27	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 mean	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 serves	obj
29	right	right	ADV	_	27 serves	advmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 serves	punct
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 serves	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tells	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tone	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tone	det
35	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tells	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 voice	case
37	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tone	nmod
38	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	conj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 tells	iobj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 tells	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	nǐ le	your turn			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Topic
2	mean	present	gāi				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	can	the same words				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	serve in a quote	present		you		right property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
5	tell speech: assert	present	the tone of voice		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic
6	intonate			voice			nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:013-in-the-playground.lesson:10.

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 ×2, 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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