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title: wǒ yě yào wánr («waw YEH YOW WAR») means I want to play too; yě mean… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: wǒ yě yào wánr («waw YEH YOW WAR») means I want to play too; yě means too, and the welcome answer is lái ba! (come on then). Who acts: wǒ, I, yě, welcome answer. A sentence of the lesson «In the playground: come on, your turn!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 18

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wǒ yě yào wánr («waw YEH YOW WAR») means I want to play too; yě means too, and the welcome answer is lái ba! (come on then).

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**Who acts:** wǒ, I, yě, welcome answer · **What happens:** «, yow, mean, want, play, be · **To what, where:** waw, WAR », lái ba · **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 (wǒ, I, yě, welcome answer), 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:18
# text = wǒ yě yào wánr («waw YEH YOW WAR») means I want to play too; yě means too, and the welcome answer is lái ba! (come on then).
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	wǒ	wǒ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
2	yě	yě	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	yào	yào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
4	wánr	wánr	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	«	«	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
7	waw	waw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	YEH	YEH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	YOW	yow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	WAR	war	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	yě	yě	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	lái	lái	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
34	on	on	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **«** | participle | wǒ *not said here* | waw |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yow** *in a quote* | infinitive | wǒ *not said here* | WAR » |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | wǒ |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **want** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mean** | present | yě |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | present | the welcome answer | lái ba |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **come on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:18`.

**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, 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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