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title: zàijiàn («dzye-JYEN», both falling) means goodbye, literally «again… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate · tree and pragmatics
description: zàijiàn («dzye-JYEN», both falling) means goodbye, literally «again see»; it is fine for anyone, and if your voice rises at the end it sounds like a question. Who acts: zàijiàn, goodbye, voice, it. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the chinese street course
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# Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate, sentence 13

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zàijiàn («dzye-JYEN», both falling) means goodbye, literally «again see»; it is fine for anyone, and if your voice rises at the end it sounds like a question.

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**Who acts:** zàijiàn, goodbye, voice, it · **What happens:** mean, see, be, rise, sound · **To what, where:** goodbye, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» 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 (zàijiàn, goodbye, voice, it), 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:13
# text = zàijiàn («dzye-JYEN», both falling) means goodbye, literally «again see»; it is fine for anyone, and if your voice rises at the end it sounds like a question.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	zàijiàn	zàijiàn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	dzye	dzye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	JYEN	JYEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	falling	falling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | zàijiàn | goodbye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again | literally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | goodbye |  |  |  |  | for anyone; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rise** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your voice |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |
| 5 | **sound** | present | it |  |  |  |  | like a question | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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