--- title: At Chinese school the teacher walks in, everyone stands up and sings… — School words · tree and pragmatics description: At Chinese school the teacher walks in, everyone stands up and sings out together, slowly, «lǎoshī hǎo!» (hello, teacher), and the teacher answers «tóngxuémen hǎo» (hello, class). Who acts: teacher, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «School words» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary scho --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # School words, sentence 2 At Chinese school the teacher walks in, everyone stands up and sings out together, slowly, «lǎoshī hǎo!» (hello, teacher), and the teacher answers «tóngxuémen hǎo» (hello, class). **Who acts:** teacher, everyone · **What happens:** walk in, stand up, sing out, answer · **To what, where:** Chinese school, tóngxuémen 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 (teacher, everyone), 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:2 # text = At Chinese school the teacher walks in, everyone stands up and sings out together, slowly, «lǎoshī hǎo!» (hello, teacher), and the teacher answers «tóngxuémen hǎo» (hello, class). # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 together together ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 lǎoshī lǎoshī X FW Foreign=Yes 6 parataxis _ _ 21 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 20 flat:foreign _ _ 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 hello hello INTJ UH _ 27 discourse _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 34 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 tóngxuémen tóngxuémen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 35 flat:foreign _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 39 hello hello INTJ UH _ 41 discourse _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk in** | present | the teacher | | | Chinese school | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand up** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing out** *speech: express* | present | everyone *not said here* | | | | | slowly, together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | tóngxuémen | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tóngxuémen=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/1/) - next →: [School words, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/15-school-words/)