---
title: «kuài lái!» (come here, quick!), «kuài diǎnr!» (hurry up!), «zǒu ba!… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: «kuài lái!» (come here, quick!), «kuài diǎnr!» (hurry up!), «zǒu ba!» (let's go!) — kuài means fast, and you hear it all day. Who acts: 's, kuài, you. A sentence of the lesson «In the playground: come on, your turn!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
---

<!-- md -->
[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/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/) / 1

# In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«kuài lái!» (come here, quick!), «kuài diǎnr!» (hurry up!), «zǒu ba!» (let's go!) — kuài means fast, and you hear it all day.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** 's, kuài, you · **What happens:** come, hurry up, let, go, mean, hear · **To what, where:** zǒu ba, 's, ba

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the playground: come on, your turn!» 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 ('s, kuài, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:013-in-the-playground.lesson:1
# text = «kuài lái!» (come here, quick!), «kuài diǎnr!» (hurry up!), «zǒu ba!» (let's go!) — kuài means fast, and you hear it all day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 013-in-the-playground.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
2	kuài	kuài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	parataxis	_	_
3	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	kuài	kuài	X	FW	_	16	compound	_	_
16	diǎnr	diǎnr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	zǒu	zǒu	X	FW	_	27	compound	_	_
27	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
32	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
36	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	kuài	kuài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	nsubj	_	_
38	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | quick *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hurry up** | infinitive |  | zǒu ba |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | present | kuài |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hear** | present | you | ba |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:013-in-the-playground.lesson:1`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/0/)
- next →: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/)

