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title: "mǎshàng" means right away, literally "on horseback"; "mǎshàng lái!"… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: "mǎshàng" means right away, literally "on horseback"; "mǎshàng lái!" is "coming right now!". Who acts: mǎshàng. A sentence of the lesson «Today, tomorrow, now, later» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 10

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"mǎshàng" means right away, literally "on horseback"; "mǎshàng lái!" is "coming right now!".

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**Who acts:** mǎshàng · **What happens:** mean, mǎshàng, come · **To what, where:** horseback, lái · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 (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:10
# text = "mǎshàng" means right away, literally "on horseback"; "mǎshàng lái!" is "coming right 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	mǎshàng	mǎshàng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	nsubj	_	_
16	lái	lái	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | mǎshàng | horseback |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mǎshàng** *in a quote* | gerund |  | lái |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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