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title: lǎoshī hǎo («LAOW-shr HOW») is the whole class standing and greeting… — School words · tree and pragmatics
description: lǎoshī hǎo («LAOW-shr HOW») is the whole class standing and greeting the teacher in a slow chorus; the teacher replies tóngxuémen hǎo, hello class. Who acts: lǎoshī, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «School words» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# School words, sentence 8

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lǎoshī hǎo («LAOW-shr HOW») is the whole class standing and greeting the teacher in a slow chorus; the teacher replies tóngxuémen hǎo, hello class.

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**Who acts:** lǎoshī, teacher · **What happens:** be, greet, reply · **To what, where:** class standing, slow chorus, tóngxuémen

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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 (lǎoshī, teacher), 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:8
# text = lǎoshī hǎo («LAOW-shr HOW») is the whole class standing and greeting the teacher in a slow chorus; the teacher replies 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	lǎoshī	lǎoshī	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	LAOW	LAOW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	shr	shr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	HOW	how	X	GW	_	1	appos	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	greeting	greet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	replies	reply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
28	tóngxuémen	tóngxuémen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	hǎo	hǎo	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
31	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present | lǎoshī | class standing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund | the teacher |  |  | a slow chorus |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | tóngxuémen and hǎo |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tóngxuémen=Topic |

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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:015-school-words.lesson:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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