Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 15
bú yào («BOO YOW!») means don't want, or don't! (stop it!); to a granny offering food, bú yòng le, xièxie (no need, thanks) is kinder.
Who acts: BOO, le xièxie · What happens: yow, means, not want, not do, stop, offer · To what, where: BOO, food, granny
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 (BOO, le 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 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 YOW | discourse |
| 2 | yào | yào | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 YOW | discourse |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOW | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOW | punct |
| 5 | BOO | boo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 YOW | nsubj |
| 6 | YOW | yow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOW | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOW | punct |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 YOW | punct |
| 10 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 want | advmod |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 means | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | conj |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 stop | punct |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stop | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 stop | punct |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 stop | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 offering | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 granny | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 granny | det |
| 27 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offering | obl |
| 28 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 want | conj |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offering | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 yòng | punct |
| 31 | bú | bú | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 yòng | discourse |
| 32 | yòng | yòng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 offering | advcl |
| 33 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 xièxie | compound |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 xièxie | punct |
| 35 | xièxie | xièxie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 kinder | nsubj |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 need | punct |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 need | det |
| 38 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 xièxie | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 thanks | punct |
| 40 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 need | discourse |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 need | punct |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 kinder | cop |
| 43 | kinder | kinder | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 means | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yow in a quote | present | BOO | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | means | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not want | present · do-support | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | not do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stop | infinitive | BOO | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | offer | gerund | food | a granny | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent food=Theme to granny=Goal | ||||
| 7 | yòng | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | is | present | le xièxie | kinder 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:004-yes-and-no.lesson:15.
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 ×2. 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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