--- title: nǐ shū le («nee SHOO luh») means you lost; shū (lose) sounds just li… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! · tree and pragmatics description: nǐ shū le («nee SHOO luh») means you lost; shū (lose) sounds just like shū (book), so some families avoid giving books at New Year. Who acts: shū le, you, shū, families. A sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/) / 13 # Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 13 nǐ shū le («nee SHOO luh») means you lost; shū (lose) sounds just like shū (book), so some families avoid giving books at New Year. **Who acts:** shū le, you, shū, families · **What happens:** nǐ, mean, lose, sound, avoid, give · **To what, where:** books · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» 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 (shū le, you, shū, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:13 # text = nǐ shū le («nee SHOO luh») means you lost; shū (lose) sounds just like shū (book), so some families avoid giving books at New Year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.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): no change 1 nǐ nǐ VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 csubj _ _ 2 shū shū ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 nee nee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 SHOO SHOO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 luh luh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 shū shū NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 lose lose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 shū shū NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 31 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 xcomp _ _ 32 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 New New PROPN NNP _ 35 amod _ _ 35 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nǐ** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | shū le | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lose** | past | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sound** | present | shū | | | | | like shū | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **avoid** | present | some families | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **give** | gerund | some families *not said here* | books | | | at New Year | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent book=Theme at year=Asset | 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. **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:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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. 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