Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 2

Ming asks «shì nǐ de ma?» (is it yours?) and you say shì (it is) or bú shì (it isn't).

Who acts: Ming, «, you · What happens: ask, be, say, not be · To what, where: shì, yours · 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 (Ming, «, 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	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 ma	punct
4	shì	shì	X	Foreign=Yes	2 asks	obj
5	nǐ	nǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	4 shì	flat:foreign
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 shì	flat:foreign
7	ma	ma	X	Foreign=Yes	4 shì	flat:foreign
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 yours	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 yours	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 yours	nsubj
13	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 asks	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 yours	punct
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 yours	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	conj
19	shì	shì	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obj
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 is	nsubj
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 shì	parataxis
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 shì	cc
25	bú	bú	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shì	amod
26	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shì	conj
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 is	nsubj
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shì	parataxis
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 is	advmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Ming	shì	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shì=Recipient
2	is a	present	«	yours	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	you	shì	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shì=Topic
4	be	present	«		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not be	present	«		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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 ×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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