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title: The best two words at Ming's table are hǎo chī! (tasty, literally «g… — Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! · tree and pragmatics
description: The best two words at Ming's table are hǎo chī! (tasty, literally «good to eat»), said to whoever cooked. Who acts: best two words, whoever. A sentence of the lesson «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!, sentence 0

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The best two words at Ming's table are hǎo chī! (tasty, literally «good to eat»), said to whoever cooked.

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**Who acts:** best two words, whoever · **What happens:** be, eat, say, cook · **To what, where:** chī · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!» 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 (best two words, whoever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:012-tasty-spicy-im-full.lesson:0
# text = The best two words at Ming's table are hǎo chī! (tasty, literally «good to eat»), said to whoever cooked.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 012-tasty-spicy-im-full.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	hǎo	hǎo	ADV	FW	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	chī	chī	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the best two words at Ming's table | chī |  |  |  | hǎo *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cook** | past | whoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:012-tasty-spicy-im-full.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2, 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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