In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 15

jiāyóu («JYAH-yo?», literally «add oil») means come on, go for it; it has nothing to do with real oil any more.

Who acts: jiāyóu, oil · What happens: add, mean, come on, go, have, do · To what, where: oil, nothing · 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 (jiāyóu, oil), 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	jiāyóu	jiāyóu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 means	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 yo	punct
3	«	«	CCONJ	_	6 yo	cc
4	JYAH	JYAH	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 yo	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 yo	punct
6	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 jiāyóu	appos
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 »	punct
8	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 jiāyóu	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 jiāyóu	punct
10	literally	literally	ADV	_	12 add	advmod
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 add	punct
12	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 jiāyóu	parataxis
13	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 add	obj
14	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 add	obj
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 add	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	ccomp
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	parataxis
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 has	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 nothing	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 oil	case
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 oil	amod
31	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	obl
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 more	det
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 do	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		oil	literally property	tree rules
2	mean	present	jiāyóu and »			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come on	present				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	infinitive			for oil	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary
5	have	present	oil	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive	oil not said here	nothing not said here	with real oil	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:15.

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, 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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