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title: "yǐhòu" means later or in the future; "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk l… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: "yǐhòu" means later or in the future; "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk later) from a parent is often a soft no. Who acts: 's, parent. 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 13

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"yǐhòu" means later or in the future; "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk later) from a parent is often a soft no.

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**Who acts:** 's, parent · **What happens:** mean, let, talk, be · **To what, where:** shuō, 's, soft no.

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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 ('s, parent), 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:13
# text = "yǐhòu" means later or in the future; "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk later) from a parent is often a soft no.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	yǐhòu	yǐhòu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	discourse	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	yǐhòu	yǐhòu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	discourse	_	_
13	zài	zài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat	_	_
14	shuō	shuō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	's	us	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
```

## 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 |  | shuō |  |  |  | late *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shuō=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a parent | a soft no. |  |  |  | often *property* | 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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**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:13`.

**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, 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/).

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