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title: shuǎlài («SHWIGH-LIGH») means refusing to accept the rules, being a… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! · tree and pragmatics
description: shuǎlài («SHWIGH-LIGH») means refusing to accept the rules, being a sore loser; it stings more than zuòbì, so use it only when it's true. Who acts: shuǎlài, le. A sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 15

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shuǎlài («SHWIGH-LIGH») means refusing to accept the rules, being a sore loser; it stings more than zuòbì, so use it only when it's true.

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**Who acts:** shuǎlài, le · **What happens:** mean, refuse, not accept, be, sting, use · **To what, where:** rules, sore loser, more, le · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shuǎlài, le), 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:15
# text = shuǎlài («SHWIGH-LIGH») means refusing to accept the rules, being a sore loser; it stings more than zuòbì, so use it only when it's true.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	shuǎlài	shuǎlài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	_
4	SHWIGH	shwigh	X	GW	_	1	appos	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:GW:_
6	LIGH	ligh	X	GW	_	4	goeswith	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	loser	loser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	zuòbì	zuòbì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | shuǎlài |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **refuse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **accept** | to-infinitive |  | the rules |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund |  | a sore loser |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sting** | present | le | more |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer |
| 6 | **use** | infinitive | shuǎlài *not said here* | le |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | present | le |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:15`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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