Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 14

bù huì ba («BOO HWAY ba») means no way, you're kidding; it is disbelief, not a refusal, and the usual reply is zhēn de!

Who acts: BOO, huì ba, you, usual reply · What happens: », mean, kid, be · To what, where: way, disbelief

This is a sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» 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, huì ba, you, usual reply), 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	ADV	_	2 huì	advmod
2	huì	huì	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ba	amod
3	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
6	BOO	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 »	nsubj
7	HWAY	HWAY	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 »	compound
8	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 »	compound
9	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ba	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kidding	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 kidding	nsubj
16	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kidding	aux
17	kidding	kid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 means	parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 disbelief	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 disbelief	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 disbelief	cop
21	disbelief	disbelief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 refusal	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 refusal	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 refusal	det
25	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 disbelief	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 zhēn	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 zhēn	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 reply	det
29	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 reply	amod
30	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 zhēn	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 zhēn	cop
32	zhēn	zhēn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	conj
33	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 zhēn	dep
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	»		BOO			tree rules
2	mean	present	huì ba	no way		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	kid	present · progressive	you			tree rules
4	is a	present	BOO	disbelief and a refusal		tree rules
5	is	present	the usual reply		zhēn 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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:14.

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 ×3. 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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