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title: zài lái yí cì («DZYE LIGH? ee TSZ») means one more time; zài means a… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! · tree and pragmatics
description: zài lái yí cì («DZYE LIGH? ee TSZ») means one more time; zài means again, and zài lái alone works too. Who acts: cì, zài. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 17

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zài lái yí cì («DZYE LIGH? ee TSZ») means one more time; zài means again, and zài lái alone works too.

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**Who acts:** cì, zài · **What happens:** mean, work

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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 (cì, zài), 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:17
# text = zài lái yí cì («DZYE LIGH? ee TSZ») means one more time; zài means again, and zài lái alone works too.
# 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 ×2
1	zài	zài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
2	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
3	yí	yí	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cì	cì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	DZYE	DZYE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	LIGH	LIGH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
10	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	list	_	_
11	TSZ	TSZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:unmarked
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	zài	zài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	zài	zài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	nsubj	_	_
25	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	flat	_	_
26	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | cì |  |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | zài |  |  |  | again |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present | zài |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2. **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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