Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 17

xièxie nǐ («SHYEH-shyeh nee») is a fuller thank you, lovely to a friend's parent who helped you, but funny to your best friend for every crisp.

Who acts: parent · What happens: be, help · To what, where: you

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 (parent), 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	xièxie	xièxie	X	Foreign=Yes	14 thank	nsubj
2	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	1 xièxie	flat
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 SHYEH	punct
4	«	«	ADP	_	5 SHYEH	case
5	SHYEH	SHYEH	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 xièxie	appos
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
7	shyeh	shyeh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 »	det
8	nee	nee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 »	amod
9	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 SHYEH	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fuller	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thank	det
13	fuller	fuller	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 thank	amod
14	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 thank	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lovely	punct
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thank	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 parent	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 friend	det
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 parent	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 friend	case
22	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lovely	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 helped	nsubj
24	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 parent	acl:relcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 helped	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 funny	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 funny	cc
28	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thank	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 friend	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friend	nmod:poss
31	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 friend	amod
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 funny	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 crisp	case
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 crisp	det
35	crisp	crisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 funny	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thank	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fuller property	tree rules
2	help	past	a friend's parent		you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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:17.

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, 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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