--- title: The words you'll need most when your Chinese runs out are three: tīn… — School words · tree and pragmatics description: The words you'll need most when your Chinese runs out are three: tīng bù dǒng (I hear you but don't understand), wǒ bù zhīdào (I don't know) and wǒ wàng le (I forgot) — careful, wàng falls; rising wáng is a king. Who acts: you, Chinese, words, I. A sentence of the lesson «School words» of the chines --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # School words, sentence 6 The words you'll need most when your Chinese runs out are three: tīng bù dǒng (I hear you but don't understand), wǒ bù zhīdào (I don't know) and wǒ wàng le (I forgot) — careful, wàng falls; rising wáng is a king. **Who acts:** you, Chinese, words, I, tīng · **What happens:** need, run out, be, tīng, hear, not understand · **To what, where:** words, three, zhīdào, you, le, falls 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 (you, Chinese, words, I), 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:6 # text = The words you'll need most when your Chinese runs out are three: tīng bù dǒng (I hear you but don't understand), wǒ bù zhīdào (I don't know) and wǒ wàng le (I forgot) — careful, wàng falls; rising wáng is a king. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 Chinese Chinese NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 15 tīng tīng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 55 csubj _ _ 16 bù bù NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 17 dǒng dǒng NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 wǒ wǒ ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 bù bù ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 zhīdào zhīdào PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 wǒ wǒ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 39 wàng wàng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 40 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 — - PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 46 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 parataxis _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 wàng wàng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ _ 49 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ _ 50 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 52 wáng wáng NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | future | you | the words *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme | | 2 | **run out** | present | your Chinese | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the words | three | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tīng** | gerund | | zhīdào | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** | present | I | you | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **wǒ** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **wàng** | gerund | | le | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **forget** | past | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **wàng** | gerund | I *not said here* | falls | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **rise** | gerund | | wáng | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wáng=Theme | | 13 | **is a** | present | tīng | a king | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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