--- title: The best one is "mǎshàng" (MAH-SHAHNG), right away, literally "on ho… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics description: The best one is "mǎshàng" (MAH-SHAHNG), right away, literally "on horseback": from Lín at his computer "mǎshàng!" can mean ten minutes, but from his mum with her shoes on it means NOW. Who acts: best one, mǎshàng. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best one, mǎshàng), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:1 # text = The best one is "mǎshàng" (MAH-SHAHNG), right away, literally "on horseback": from Lín at his computer "mǎshàng!" can mean ten minutes, but from his mum with her shoes on it means NOW. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 021-today-tomorrow-now-later.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mǎshàng mǎshàng NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 MAH MAH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 11 SHAHNG SHAHNG PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 right right ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 literally literally ADV RB _ 15 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 horseback horseback NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Lín Lín PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 mǎshàng mǎshàng NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 34 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 47 NOW now ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the best one | mǎshàng | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | can | mǎshàng | | | Lín at Lín's computer | minute | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | mǎshàng *not said here* | | | | now | from mǎshàng's mum with MAH's shoes on computer | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:1`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Today, tomorrow, now, later, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/0/) - next →: [Today, tomorrow, now, later, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/)