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title: kuài pǎo («KWIGH POW») means run!; pǎo (run) dips, while falling pào… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: kuài pǎo («KWIGH POW») means run!; pǎo (run) dips, while falling pào is a bubble or a cannon. Who acts: kuài, pào. 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 13

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kuài pǎo («KWIGH POW») means run!; pǎo (run) dips, while falling pào is a bubble or a cannon.

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**Who acts:** kuài, pào · **What happens:** mean, run, fall, be · **To what, where:** pǎo, bubble

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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 (kuài, pào), 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:13
# text = kuài pǎo («KWIGH POW») means run!; pǎo (run) dips, while falling pào is a bubble or a cannon.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	kuài	kuài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
2	pǎo	pǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	KWIGH	KWIGH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	POW	pow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pǎo	pǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	dips	dip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
21	pào	pào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | kuài | pǎo |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pǎo=Topic |
| 2 | **run** | present | kuài *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund | kuài *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | pào | a bubble or a cannon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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