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title: "yíhuìr" means in a little while; "yíhuìr jiàn" is "see you in a bit… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: "yíhuìr" means in a little while; "yíhuìr jiàn" is "see you in a bit", and "děng yíhuìr" is a longer wait than "děng yíxià". Who acts: yíhuìr, yíhuìr jiàn. 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 pr
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# Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 11

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"yíhuìr" means in a little while; "yíhuìr jiàn" is "see you in a bit", and "děng yíhuìr" is a longer wait than "děng yíxià".

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**Who acts:** yíhuìr, yíhuìr jiàn · **What happens:** mean, be, děng · **To what, where:** bit, yíhuìr, longer wait, yíxià · **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 (yíhuìr, yíhuìr jiàn), 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:11
# text = "yíhuìr" means in a little while; "yíhuìr jiàn" is "see you in a bit", and "děng yíhuìr" is a longer wait than "děng yíxià".
# 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	yíhuìr	yíhuìr	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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	yíhuìr	yíhuìr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	děng	děng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
26	yíhuìr	yíhuìr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	_
32	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	děng	děng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
35	yíxià	yíxià	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | yíhuìr |  |  |  | while |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | yíhuìr jiàn |  |  | a bit |  | see *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **děng** *in a quote* | gerund | yíhuìr jiàn *not said here* | yíhuìr |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | yíhuìr jiàn *not said here* | a longer wait |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **děng** *in a quote* | gerund | yíhuìr jiàn *not said here* | yíxià |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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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