Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 1

Mandarin doesn't: you answer by repeating the verb of the question, so the «yes» changes every time.

Who acts: Mandarin, you, « · What happens: not do, answer, repeat, change · To what, where: verb

This is a sentence of the lesson «Yes and no — there is no single word» 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 (Mandarin, 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	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 does	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 answer	nsubj
6	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	conj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 repeating	mark
8	repeating	repeat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answer	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 verb	det
10	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 repeating	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 question	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 question	det
13	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 verb	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 changes	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 changes	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 «	det
17	«	«	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changes	nsubj
18	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	17 «	discourse
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 yes	punct
20	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changes	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not do	present	Mandarin			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	present	you			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	repeat	gerund	you not said here	the verb of the question		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Eventuality
4	change	present	the «		time	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:004-yes-and-no.lesson:1.

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): 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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