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title: Taking turns has its own words: gāi nǐ le (your turn), gāi wǒ le (my… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking turns has its own words: gāi nǐ le (your turn), gāi wǒ le (my turn), and from the teacher pái duì! (line up!). Who acts: Taking, ba. 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 pragmat
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# In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 2

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Taking turns has its own words: gāi nǐ le (your turn), gāi wǒ le (my turn), and from the teacher pái duì! (line up!).

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**Who acts:** Taking, ba · **What happens:** take, have, line up, word · **To what, where:** turns, own words

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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 (Taking, ba), 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:2
# text = Taking turns has its own words: gāi nǐ le (your turn), gāi wǒ le (my turn), and from the teacher pái duì! (line up!).
# 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 ×1
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	csubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	gāi	gāi	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
9	nǐ	nǐ	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	gāi	gāi	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
17	wǒ	wǒ	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
28	pái	pái	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
29	duì	duì	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	flat	_	_
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	line	line	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Taking | ba's own words |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 3 | **line up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | ba |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:2`.

**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 ×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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