At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 15
wǒ gāi zǒu le («waw GUY DZOE luh») means I'd better go now; the hosts will politely ask you to stay (zài wánr yíhuìr ba), which is custom, and it is fine to go.
Who acts: wǒ, I, hosts, zài, wánr yíhuìr ba, it · What happens: mean, go, ask, stay, ba, be · To what, where: you, custom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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 (wǒ, I, hosts, zài), 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 | wǒ | wǒ | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 means | nsubj |
| 2 | gāi | gāi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 3 | zǒu | zǒu | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 4 | le | le | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 wǒ | flat:foreign |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 DZOE | punct |
| 6 | « | « | CCONJ | _ | 9 DZOE | cc |
| 7 | waw | waw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 GUY | compound |
| 8 | GUY | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 DZOE | nmod:desc |
| 9 | DZOE | DZOE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 10 | luh | luh | INTJ | _ | 11 » | discourse |
| 11 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 DZOE | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 DZOE | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | ccomp |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hosts | det |
| 21 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ask | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ask | aux |
| 23 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 24 ask | advmod |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | parataxis |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 stay | mark |
| 27 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ask | xcomp |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 ba | punct |
| 29 | zài | zài | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 32 ba | nsubj |
| 30 | wánr | wán | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 ba | amod |
| 31 | yíhuìr | yíhuìr | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ba | compound |
| 32 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stay | obl |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 ba | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 custom | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 custom | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 custom | cop |
| 37 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ba | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fine | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 fine | cc |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 fine | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 fine | cop |
| 42 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 means | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 go | mark |
| 44 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 fine | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | wǒ | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | would | I | now | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | future | the hosts | you | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the hosts not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ba | zài | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | wánr yíhuìr ba and custom | custom | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | it | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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