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title: And «děng yíxià!» (wait a moment!) means three seconds from a friend… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: And «děng yíxià!» (wait a moment!) means three seconds from a friend and about an hour from a parent. Who acts: děng. 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 5

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And «děng yíxià!» (wait a moment!) means three seconds from a friend and about an hour from a parent.

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**Who acts:** děng · **What happens:** děng, wait, mean · **To what, where:** yíxià · **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 (děng), 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:5
# text = And «děng yíxià!» (wait a moment!) means three seconds from a friend and about an hour from a parent.
# 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 ×4
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	děng	děng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
4	yíxià	yíxià	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **děng** *in a quote* | gerund |  | yíxià |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | moment |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | děng |  |  |  | second |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:5`.

**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 ×4. **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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