Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 14

yào («YOW!», falling) means want, yes please, and also «will» or «must»; to an adult add xièxie.

Who acts: yào, «, xièxie · What happens: yow, fall, mean, want, », « · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (yào, «, xièxie), 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	yào	yào	X	Foreign=Yes	10 means	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 YOW	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 YOW	punct
4	YOW	yow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 yào	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 YOW	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 YOW	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 falling	punct
8	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 »	parataxis
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 YOW	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
13	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 means	discourse
14	please	please	INTJ	_	10 means	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 »	cc
17	also	also	ADV	_	19 will	advmod
18	«	«	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 »	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 »	aux
20	»	»	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 «	cc
22	«	«	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 »	conj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 will	conj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 must	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 add	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 adult	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 adult	det
28	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 add	obl
29	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 means	conj
30	xièxie	xièxie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 add	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	yow in a quote	infinitive			tree rules
2	fall	gerund			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	yào		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want	present			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	»	future	«		tree rules
6	«	infinitive	« not said here		tree rules
7	add speech: assert	infinitive	xièxie	to a adult	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to adult=Co-Patient

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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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