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title: "wǎnshang" means evening or night; wǎn also means late, so "tài wǎn… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: "wǎnshang" means evening or night; wǎn also means late, so "tài wǎn le" is "it's too late". Who acts: wǎnshang, wǎn, tài le. 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 16

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"wǎnshang" means evening or night; wǎn also means late, so "tài wǎn le" is "it's too late".

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**Who acts:** wǎnshang, wǎn, tài le · **What happens:** mean, be · **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 (wǎnshang, wǎn, tài le), 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:16
# text = "wǎnshang" means evening or night; wǎn also means late, so "tài wǎn le" is "it's too late".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	wǎnshang	wǎnshang	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	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	wǎn	wǎn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	tài	tài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	amod	_	_
17	wǎn	wǎn	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:outer	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | wǎnshang |  |  |  | evening |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | wǎn |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | tài le |  |  |  |  | late *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:16`.

**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): 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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