Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 13

qǐng («ching», dipping) is please as an invitation: qǐng zuò (please sit), qǐng jìn (please come in); kids ask for things with ... hǎo ma? or ... ba instead.

Who acts: invitation, kids · What happens: qǐng, ch, dip, be, sit, come in · To what, where: zuò · 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 (invitation, kids), 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	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 invitation	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 »	punct
3	«	«	ADP	_	5 »	case
4	ching	ch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 »	amod
5	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 qǐng	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dipping	punct
7	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 qǐng	conj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 dipping	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 invitation	cop
10	please	please	INTJ	_	13 invitation	discourse
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 invitation	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 invitation	det
13	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 qǐng	punct
15	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 invitation	acl
16	zuò	zuò	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 qǐng	obj
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
18	please	please	INTJ	_	19 sit	discourse
19	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 zuò	parataxis
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 qǐng	punct
22	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sit	conj
23	jìn	jìn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 zuò	conj
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
25	please	please	INTJ	_	26 come	discourse
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 qǐng	xcomp
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 ask	punct
30	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ask	nsubj
31	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 invitation	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 things	case
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ask	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 ma	case
35	...	...	PUNCT	_	37 ma	punct
36	hǎo	hǎo	X	_	37 ma	compound
37	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ask	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 ma	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 ba	cc
40	...	...	PUNCT	_	39 or	punct
41	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ma	conj
42	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 invitation	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 invitation	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	qǐng	gerund			« ching »	tree rules
2	ch in a quote	gerund				tree rules
3	dip	gerund				vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present			as a invitation; instead property	tree rules
5	qǐng	gerund	a invitation not said here	zuò and jìn		tree rules
6	sit	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	qǐng	gerund				tree rules
8	come in	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	ask speech: ask	present	kids		for things; with hǎo ma or ba	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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