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title: jiāyóu («JYAH-yo?», literally «add oil») means come on, go for it; i… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: jiāyóu («JYAH-yo?», literally «add oil») means come on, go for it; it has nothing to do with real oil any more. Who acts: jiāyóu, oil. 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 o
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# In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 15

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jiāyóu («JYAH-yo?», literally «add oil») means come on, go for it; it has nothing to do with real oil any more.

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**Who acts:** jiāyóu, oil · **What happens:** add, mean, come on, go, have, do · **To what, where:** oil, nothing · **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 (jiāyóu, oil), 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:15
# text = jiāyóu («JYAH-yo?», literally «add oil») means come on, go for it; it has nothing to do with real oil any more.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	jiāyóu	jiāyóu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
3	«	«	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	JYAH	JYAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
8	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
13	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
14	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | oil |  |  |  | literally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | jiāyóu and » |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come on** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for oil | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **have** | present | oil | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | oil *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with real oil | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:15`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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