--- title: bié kèqi («BYEH KUH-chee», literally «don't be polite») means make y… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics description: bié kèqi («BYEH KUH-chee», literally «don't be polite») means make yourself at home; it is an invitation, but still take one helping, not the whole plate. Who acts: bié, seat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bié, seat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.lesson:12 # text = bié kèqi («BYEH KUH-chee», literally «don't be polite») means make yourself at home; it is an invitation, but still take one helping, not the whole plate. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 bié bié X FW Foreign=Yes 19 nsubj _ _ 2 kèqi kèqi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 BYEH BYEH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 KUH KUH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 chee chee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 literally literally ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 21 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 invitation invitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 helping helping NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | literally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | bié | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | | yourself | | home | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | | 5 | **is a** | present | seat | a invitation | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take** | infinitive | seat *not said here* | one helping | | | still | the whole plate *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helping=Theme | 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. **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:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, 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. 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