Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 12

bù hǎoyìsi («boo HOW-ee-sz») is a softer everyday sorry or excuse me for small slips, and also means «oh, I'm embarrassed».

Who acts: boo, southern speakers · What happens: be, excuse, mean · To what, where: softer everyday sorry, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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 (boo, southern speakers), 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	bù	bù	ADP	_	2 hǎoyìsi	case
2	hǎoyìsi	hǎoyìsi	X	Foreign=Yes	17 sorry	parataxis
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 sorry	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 boo	punct
5	boo	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sorry	nsubj
6	HOW	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 »	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 HOW	punct
8	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 »	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sz	punct
10	sz	sz	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 »	compound
11	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boo	conj
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 »	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sorry	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sorry	det
15	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 sorry	amod
16	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sorry	amod
17	sorry	sorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 excuse	cc
19	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sorry	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 excuse	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 slips	case
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 slips	amod
23	slips	slip	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 excuse	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 means	cc
26	also	also	ADV	_	27 means	advmod
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sorry	conj
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 embarrassed	punct
29	oh	oh	INTJ	_	33 embarrassed	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 oh	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 embarrassed	nsubj
32	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 embarrassed	cop
33	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 means	ccomp
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 embarrassed	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	boo and ee sz »	a softer everyday sorry		tree rules
2	excuse	infinitive	boo and ee sz » not said here	me	for small slips	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for slip=Attribute
3	mean	present	boo and ee sz » not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	southern speakers = speaker		embarrassed 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:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:12.

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 ×3, 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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