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title: gāi wǒ le («GUY waw luh») means my turn; grabbing while you say it s… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: gāi wǒ le («GUY waw luh») means my turn; grabbing while you say it starts a quarrel. Who acts: le, 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 11

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gāi wǒ le («GUY waw luh») means my turn; grabbing while you say it starts a quarrel.

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**Who acts:** le, you · **What happens:** mean, grab, say, start · **To what, where:** turn, quarrel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, 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:11
# text = gāi wǒ le («GUY waw luh») means my turn; grabbing while you say it starts a quarrel.
# 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): no change
1	gāi	gāi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
2	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
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	compound	_	_
7	waw	waw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	luh	luh	INTJ	UH	_	7	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	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | le | my turn |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Topic |
| 2 | **grab** | gerund | le *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **start** | present | le | a quarrel |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Eventuality |

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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:013-in-the-playground.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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