--- title: míngtiān jiàn («MING-tyen JYEN») means see you tomorrow; míngtiān is… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate · tree and pragmatics description: míngtiān jiàn («MING-tyen JYEN») means see you tomorrow; míngtiān is tomorrow, so on a Friday people say xīngqīyī jiàn (see you Monday). Who acts: míngtiān jiàn, míngtiān, people. 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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 (míngtiān jiàn, míngtiān, people), 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:15 # text = míngtiān jiàn («MING-tyen JYEN») means see you tomorrow; míngtiān is tomorrow, so on a Friday people say xīngqīyī jiàn (see you Monday). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 míngtiān míngtiān X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 jiàn jiàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 4 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 MING MING PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 tyen tyen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 JYEN JYEN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 míngtiān míngtiān PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 26 xīngqīyī xīngqīyī ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 jiàn jiàn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tyen** *in a quote* | participle | | MING | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | míngtiān jiàn | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | | you | | | tomorrow | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | míngtiān | tomorrow | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | friday | xīngqīyī jiàn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | | you | | | monday | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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