--- title: In the playground: come on, your turn! — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «In the playground: come on, your turn!», a lesson of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The playground is where you learn fastest, because everyone is shouting. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / In the playground: come on, your turn! # In the playground: come on, your turn! Lesson 13 of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/0/) — The playground is where you learn fastest, because everyone is shouting. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/1/) — «kuài lái!» (come here, quick!), «kuài diǎnr!» (hurry up!), «zǒu ba!» (let's go!) — kuài means fast, and you hear it all day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/2/) — Taking turns has its own words: gāi nǐ le (your turn), gāi wǒ le (my turn), and from the teacher pái duì! (line up!). - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/3/) — Shout «gāi wǒ le» while grabbing and a quarrel starts; say it with your hand up and it's fair. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/4/) — In tag the catcher yells «zhuā zhù le!» (got you!), on sports day every Chinese parent roars «jiāyóu!» (come on! literally «add oil»), and from the edge of the game a shy voice says «wǒ yě yào wánr» (I want to play too). - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/5/) — And «děng yíxià!» (wait a moment!) means three seconds from a friend and about an hour from a parent. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/6/) — kuài lái («KWIGH LIGH?») means come here, quick; the answer is lái le! (coming!). - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/7/) — kuài diǎnr («KWIGH DYAR») means hurry up; normal between friends, but rude if snapped at a grown-up. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/9/) — yìqǐ wánr ba («ee-CHEE WAR ba») means let's play together; the r curl in wánr is northern, southern kids say wán. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/10/) — gāi nǐ le («GUY nee luh») means your turn; gāi means should, so the same words can also mean «serves you right!», and the tone of voice tells you which. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/11/) — gāi wǒ le («GUY waw luh») means my turn; grabbing while you say it starts a quarrel. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/12/) — děng yíxià («DUNG ee-SHYAH») means wait a moment. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/13/) — kuài pǎo («KWIGH POW») means run!; pǎo (run) dips, while falling pào is a bubble or a cannon. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/15/) — jiāyóu («JYAH-yo?», literally «add oil») means come on, go for it; it has nothing to do with real oil any more. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/17/) — DWAY») means queue up; pushing in is chā duì, and calling out «bié chā duì!» (no pushing in!) is fair. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/18/) — wǒ yě yào wánr («waw YEH YOW WAR») means I want to play too; yě means too, and the welcome answer is lái ba! (come on then). - ← previous: [Tasty! Spicy! I'm full!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/) - next →: [Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/) - ↑ back to [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/)