--- title: And when Ming's nǎinai asks chī le ma? (have you eaten?), she is not… — Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate · tree and pragmatics description: And when Ming's nǎinai asks chī le ma? (have you eaten?), she is not offering dinner — it is an old-style hello, like «all right?». Who acts: Ming, you, dinner. 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(have you eaten?), she is not offering dinner — it is an old-style hello, like «all right?». **Who acts:** Ming, you, dinner · **What happens:** ask, eat, not offer, be · **To what, where:** dinner, old style 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 (Ming, you, dinner), 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:6 # text = And when Ming's nǎinai asks chī le ma? (have you eaten?), she is not offering dinner — it is an old-style hello, like «all right?». # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:cc 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 nǎinai nǎinai X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ 6 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 7 chī chī ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 parataxis _ _ 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 offering offer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 22 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 — - PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 30 hello hello INTJ UH _ 29 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 like like INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 35 right right ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ming | | | | | chī le ma | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **offer** | present · progressive | Ming | dinner | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | dinner | a old style | | | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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. 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