--- title: chī fàn le («CHR FAHN luh») means dinner's ready; fàn means rice and… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: chī fàn le («CHR FAHN luh») means dinner's ready; fàn means rice and also meal, and the answer is lái le! (coming!). Who acts: you, CHR FAHN, dinner, fàn. 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(coming!). **Who acts:** you, CHR FAHN, dinner, fàn, answer · **What happens:** chī, mean, be, come · **To what, where:** fàn le, rice, lái le · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» 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, CHR FAHN, dinner, fàn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:6 # text = chī fàn le («CHR FAHN luh») means dinner's ready; fàn means rice and also meal, and the answer is lái le! (coming!). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.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 1 chī chī VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 fàn fàn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 CHR CHR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 FAHN FAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 luh luh INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 12 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 fàn fàn X FW Foreign=Yes 17 nsubj _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 lái lái ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 parataxis _ _ 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chī** | imperative | you *not said here* | fàn le | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | CHR FAHN | fàn le *not said here* | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent le=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | dinner | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | fàn | rice and meal and lái le | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | the answer | lái le | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | gerund | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Dinner at the friend's house, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/5/) - next →: [Dinner at the friend's house, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/11-dinner-at-the-friends-house/)