Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 8

bú shì («BOO SHR!») means no, it isn't; bù becomes rising bú before a falling tone.

Who acts: bú shì, shì, bù · What happens: mean, not be, become, rise, fall · To what, where: rising bú, falling tone · 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 (bú shì, shì, bù), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shì	compound
2	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 SHR	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 SHR	punct
5	BOO	boo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 SHR	compound
6	SHR	shr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shì	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 SHR	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 SHR	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 SHR	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	14 is	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 is	nsubj
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	ccomp
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 is	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 becomes	punct
17	bù	bù	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 becomes	nsubj
18	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	parataxis
19	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 bú	amod
20	bú	bú	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 becomes	xcomp
21	before	before	ADP	_	24 tone	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tone	det
23	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 tone	amod
24	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rising	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	bú shì			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not be	present	shì			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	present	bù	rising bú		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	rise	gerund			a falling tone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before tone=Location
5	fall	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «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:8.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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