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title: The first word you catch is nǐ hǎo (hello, literally «you good»). — Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate · tree and pragmatics
description: The first word you catch is nǐ hǎo (hello, literally «you good»). Who acts: you. 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 2

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The first word you catch is nǐ hǎo (hello, literally «you good»).

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** catch · **To what, where:** first word

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = The first word you catch is nǐ hǎo (hello, literally «you good»).
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
8	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **catch** | present | you | the first word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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