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title: "wànshì rúyì" means "may everything go as you wish", a grand four-wo… — Red envelopes and New Year wishes · tree and pragmatics
description: "wànshì rúyì" means "may everything go as you wish", a grand four-word wish to anyone. Who acts: wànshì, everything, you. A sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 11

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"wànshì rúyì" means "may everything go as you wish", a grand four-word wish to anyone.

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**Who acts:** wànshì, everything, you · **What happens:** mean, go, wish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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 (wànshì, everything, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.lesson:11
# text = "wànshì rúyì" means "may everything go as you wish", a grand four-word wish to anyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	wànshì	wànshì	NOUN	NN	_	5	nsubj	_	_
3	rúyì	rúyì	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | wànshì |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | may | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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