Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 5
Picture a crowded bus: «jiè guò yíxià!» gets you past, qǐng wèn starts a question to a stranger, and máfan nǐ asks a favour, like «sorry to trouble you».
Who acts: you, «, wèn, máfan nǐ · What happens: picture, get, qǐng, start, ask, trouble · To what, where: crowded bus, you, question, favour · 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, «, wèn, máfan nǐ), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bus | det |
| 3 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bus | amod |
| 4 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | jiè | jiè | X | _ | 6 « | flat |
| 8 | guò | guò | X | _ | 6 « | flat |
| 9 | yíxià | yíxià | X | _ | 6 « | goeswith |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 gets | obj |
| 14 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gets | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 starts | punct |
| 16 | qǐng | qǐng | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 starts | csubj |
| 17 | wèn | wèn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 starts | nsubj |
| 18 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gets | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 question | det |
| 20 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 starts | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 stranger | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stranger | det |
| 23 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 question | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 asks | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 asks | cc |
| 26 | máfan | máfan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nǐ | amod |
| 27 | nǐ | nǐ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asks | nsubj |
| 28 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 favour | det |
| 30 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asks | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sorry | punct |
| 32 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 34 sorry | mark |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 sorry | punct |
| 34 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 trouble | mark |
| 36 | trouble | trouble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sorry | xcomp |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 trouble | obj |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 trouble | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a crowded bus | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | « | you | past property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | qǐng | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | start | present | wèn | a question | to a stranger | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | máfan nǐ | a favour | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | trouble in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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:5.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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