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title: nǐ qù nǎr? («nee CHYOO nar») means «where are you off to?»; aunties… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate · tree and pragmatics
description: nǐ qù nǎr? («nee CHYOO nar») means «where are you off to?»; aunties use it as a street hello, so a vague answer like chūqù wánr (going out to play) is fine. Who acts: nǐ, you, aunties, vague answer. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the chinese street cours
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# Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate, sentence 18

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nǐ qù nǎr? («nee CHYOO nar») means «where are you off to?»; aunties use it as a street hello, so a vague answer like chūqù wánr (going out to play) is fine.

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**Who acts:** nǐ, you, aunties, vague answer · **What happens:** mean, be, use, go out, play · **To what, where:** » · **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 (nǐ, you, aunties, vague answer), 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:18
# text = nǐ qù nǎr? («nee CHYOO nar») means «where are you off to?»; aunties use it as a street hello, so a vague answer like chūqù wánr (going out to play) is fine.
# 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
1	nǐ	nǐ	X	GW	_	12	nsubj	_	_
2	qù	qù	X	GW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	nǎr	nǎr	X	NN	_	2	goeswith	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	nee	nee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	CHYOO	CHYOO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	nar	nar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	ccomp	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	aunties	auntie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
34	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	chūqù	chūqù	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	33	appos	_	_
36	wánr	wánr	X	NN	_	35	goeswith	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
38	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
45	.	.	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 | nǐ |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present | aunties | » |  |  |  | as a street | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as street=Attribute |
| 4 | **go out** | gerund | a vague answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | a vague answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | a vague answer |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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:18`.

**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. **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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