Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 4
Arrive late or forget a name and you say the shy bù hǎoyìsi, with a smile.
Who acts: you · What happens: arrive, forget, say · To what, where: name, shy · 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 (you), 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 | Arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Arrive | advmod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 forget | cc |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Arrive | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forget | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 say | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Arrive | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shy | det |
| 11 | shy | shy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obj |
| 12 | bù | bù | ADP | _ | 13 hǎoyìsi | case |
| 13 | hǎoyìsi | hǎoyìsi | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 9 say | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smile | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 smile | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smile | det |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arrive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | imperative | you not said here | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | you not said here | a name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | you | the shy | with a smile | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent shy=Theme hǎoyìsi=Manner |
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:4.
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 ×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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