--- title: wǒ gāi zǒu le («waw GUY DZOE luh») means I'd better go now; the host… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics description: wǒ gāi zǒu le («waw GUY DZOE luh») means I'd better go now; the hosts will politely ask you to stay (zài wánr yíhuìr ba), which is custom, and it is fine to go. Who acts: wǒ, I, hosts, zài. 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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 (wǒ, I, hosts, zài), 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:15 # text = wǒ gāi zǒu le («waw GUY DZOE luh») means I'd better go now; the hosts will politely ask you to stay (zài wánr yíhuìr ba), which is custom, and it is fine to go. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 13 nsubj _ _ 2 gāi gāi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 zǒu zǒu X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 waw waw NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 GUY guy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 DZOE DZOE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 luh luh INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 11 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 now now ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 politely politely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 29 zài zài NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 wánr wán ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 31 yíhuìr yíhuìr ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod 32 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | wǒ | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** | would | I | | | | now | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | the hosts | | you | | | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the hosts *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ba** | | zài | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | wánr yíhuìr ba and custom | custom | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | it | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:15`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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