--- title: gāi nǐ le («GUY nee luh») means your turn; gāi means should, so the… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: le, gāi, same words, tone. A sentence of the lesson «In the playground: come on, your turn!» of the chinese street course of Mova's prima --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 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. **Who acts:** le, gāi, same words, tone · **What happens:** mean, serve, tell, intonate · **To what, where:** turn, you, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (le, gāi, same words, tone), 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:10 # text = 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. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 gāi gāi X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ 2 nǐ nǐ DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 GUY guy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 nee nee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 appos _ _ 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 0 root _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 gāi gāi X FW Foreign=Yes 16 nsubj _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 serves serve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 right right ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | nǐ le | your turn | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | gāi | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | can | the same words | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **serve** *in a quote* | present | | you | | | | right *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the tone of voice | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic | | 6 | **intonate** | | | voice | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:013-in-the-playground.lesson:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/9/) - next →: [In the playground: come on, your turn!, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/13-in-the-playground/)