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title: nǎr (where?) dips and nàr (there) falls; only the tone tells the two… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate · tree and pragmatics
description: nǎr (where?) dips and nàr (there) falls; only the tone tells the two apart. Who acts: nǎr, nàr, tone. A sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate, sentence 19

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nǎr (where?) dips and nàr (there) falls; only the tone tells the two apart.

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**Who acts:** nǎr, nàr, tone · **What happens:** dip, fall, tell · **To what, where:** two · **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 (nǎr, nàr, tone), 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:19
# text = nǎr (where?) dips and nàr (there) falls; only the tone tells the two apart.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	nǎr	nǎr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	1	appos	_	_
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
6	dips	dip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	nàr	nàr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
20	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | present | nǎr |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | present | nàr |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the tone | the two |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent two=Recipient |

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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:19`.

**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): 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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