--- title: We write what you hear in pinyin, with little tone marks showing whe… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate · tree and pragmatics description: We write what you hear in pinyin, with little tone marks showing whether the voice stays high, rises, dips or falls. Who acts: We, you, little tone marks, voice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you, little tone marks, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:001-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate.lesson:1 # text = We write what you hear in pinyin, with little tone marks showing whether the voice stays high, rises, dips or falls. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 001-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 pinyin pinyin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 11 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 13 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 dips dip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | We | | | | | with little tone marks | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hear** | present | you | | | pinyin | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **show** | gerund | little tone marks *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stay** | present | the voice | | | | | high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rise** | present | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dip** | present | | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fall** | present | | | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Hello and goodbye: the first words at…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/0/) - next →: [Hello and goodbye: the first words at…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/1-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate/)