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title: shàng kè («SHAHNG KUH») means lessons start or to be in class; shàng… — School words · tree and pragmatics
description: shàng kè («SHAHNG KUH») means lessons start or to be in class; shàng kè le! means the bell has gone; shàng xué is to go to school. Who acts: shàng, lessons, bell. A sentence of the lesson «School words» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# School words, sentence 10

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shàng kè («SHAHNG KUH») means lessons start or to be in class; shàng kè le! means the bell has gone; shàng xué is to go to school.

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**Who acts:** shàng, lessons, bell · **What happens:** shàng, shahng, mean, start, be, go · **To what, where:** kè, class, kè le, xué · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «School words» 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 (shàng, lessons, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:015-school-words.lesson:10
# text = shàng kè («SHAHNG KUH») means lessons start or to be in class; shàng kè le! means the bell has gone; shàng xué is to go to school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 015-school-words.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 ×2
1	shàng	shàng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	kè	kè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	SHAHNG	shahng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	KUH	kuh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	shàng	shàng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	kè	kè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	shàng	shàng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
29	xué	xué	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **shàng** | gerund |  | kè |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shahng** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | shàng |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **start** | present | lessons |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | lessons *not said here* |  |  | class |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shàng** | gerund | lessons *not said here* | kè le |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **go** | present · perfect | the bell |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **shàng** | gerund |  | xué |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** | present | shàng |  |  |  |  | to school; go *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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**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 ×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.

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