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title: kuài lái («KWIGH LIGH?») means come here, quick; the answer is lái l… — In the playground: come on, your turn! · tree and pragmatics
description: kuài lái («KWIGH LIGH?») means come here, quick; the answer is lái le! (coming!). Who acts: 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In the playground: come on, your turn!, sentence 6

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kuài lái («KWIGH LIGH?») means come here, quick; the answer is lái le! (coming!).

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**Who acts:** answer · **What happens:** mean, come, be · **To what, where:** lái le · **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 (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:6
# text = kuài lái («KWIGH LIGH?») means come here, quick; the answer is lái le! (coming!).
# 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 ×6
1	kuài	kuài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	flat:foreign	_	_
2	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	KWIGH	kwigh	PROPN	GW	Typo=Yes	0	root	_	_
6	LIGH	LIGH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	goeswith	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	lái	lái	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the answer | lái le |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:6`.

**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 ×6. **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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