--- title: wǒ bù zhīdào («waw boo JR-dow») means I don't know; to a teacher, ad… — School words · tree and pragmatics description: wǒ bù zhīdào («waw boo JR-dow») means I don't know; to a teacher, adding duìbuqǐ makes it softer. Who acts: waw boo, I, adding. A sentence of the lesson «School words» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/17/) [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/) / [School words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/) / 17 # School words, sentence 17 wǒ bù zhīdào («waw boo JR-dow») means I don't know; to a teacher, adding duìbuqǐ makes it softer. **Who acts:** waw boo, I, adding · **What happens:** mean, not know, add, make · **To what, where:** duìbuqǐ, boo · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (waw boo, I, adding), 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:17 # text = wǒ bù zhīdào («waw boo JR-dow») means I don't know; to a teacher, adding duìbuqǐ makes it softer. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 3 compound _ _ 2 bù bù ADV RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 zhīdào zhīdào X FW Foreign=Yes 13 csubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 waw waw NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 boo boo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 JR jr NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 dow dow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj 24 duìbuqǐ duìbuqǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | waw boo | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | | duìbuqǐ | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duìbuqǐ=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | adding | boo | | | | to a teacher; soft *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:015-school-words.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [School words, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/14/) - next →: [Happy, angry, bored, scared, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/16-happy-angry-bored-scared/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/)