Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 9

duì («DWAY!», falling) means right, correct; kids say it a lot, often three times: duì duì duì.

Who acts: duì, kids · What happens: mean, say · To what, where: right, falling · 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 (duì, kids), 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	duì	duì	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 DWAY	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 DWAY	punct
4	DWAY	DWAY	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 duì	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 DWAY	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 DWAY	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 falling	punct
8	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 DWAY	appos
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 DWAY	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 correct	punct
13	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 right	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lot	det
19	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 times	punct
21	often	often	ADV	_	23 times	advmod
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 times	nummod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	obl:unmarked
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 duì	punct
25	duì	duì	X	_	10 means	obj
26	duì	duì	X	_	25 duì	flat
27	duì	duì	X	_	25 duì	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	duì	right					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	kids	falling			time	a lot obl:unmarked	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:9.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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