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title: Some time words are secret no's: "xiànzài bù xíng" (not now) and "yǐ… — Today, tomorrow, now, later · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time words are secret no's: "xiànzài bù xíng" (not now) and "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk about it later) from a parent often mean "no", said softly. Who acts: time words, 's. A sentence of the lesson «Today, tomorrow, now, later» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 2

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Some time words are secret no's: "xiànzài bù xíng" (not now) and "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk about it later) from a parent often mean "no", said softly.

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**Who acts:** time words, 's · **What happens:** be, xíng, let, talk, mean, say · **To what, where:** 's · **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 (time words, 's), 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:2
# text = Some time words are secret no's: "xiànzài bù xíng" (not now) and "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk about it later) from a parent often mean "no", said softly.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
7	's	's	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	xiànzài	xiànzài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	discourse	_	_
11	bù	bù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat	_	_
12	xíng	xíng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	yǐhòu	yǐhòu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	discourse	_	_
21	zài	zài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	flat	_	_
22	shuō	shuō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	's	us	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	later	late	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	often	often	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
38	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	41	discourse	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
42	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | some time words |  |  |  |  | secret *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **xíng** *in a quote* |  | 's |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about 's; from a parent; late *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 5 | **mean** | present | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:2`.

**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. **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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