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title: xià cì zài lái wánr («SHYAH TSZ DZYE LIGH WAR») means come and play… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics
description: xià cì zài lái wánr («SHYAH TSZ DZYE LIGH WAR») means come and play again next time, the warmest goodbye, and a sign you did well; the answer is hǎo, xièxie shūshu āyí! Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» of the chinese street course of Mova's p
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# At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 17

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xià cì zài lái wánr («SHYAH TSZ DZYE LIGH WAR») means come and play again next time, the warmest goodbye, and a sign you did well; the answer is hǎo, xièxie shūshu āyí!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** xià, mean, come, play, do · **To what, where:** sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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 (you), 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:17
# text = xià cì zài lái wánr («SHYAH TSZ DZYE LIGH WAR») means come and play again next time, the warmest goodbye, and a sign you did well; the answer is hǎo, xièxie shūshu āyí!
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	xià	xià	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	nsubj	_	_
2	cì	cì	X	GW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
3	zài	zài	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat	_	_
4	lái	lái	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	compound	_	_
5	wánr	wánr	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
8	SHYAH	SHYAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	TSZ	TSZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	DZYE	DZYE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	LIGH	LIGH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	WAR	WAR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	warmest	warm	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	parataxis	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	xièxie	xièxie	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	37	flat	_	_
40	shūshu	shūshu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	37	flat	_	_
41	āyí	āyí	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	37	flat	_	_
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **xià** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again; time |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | past | you | a sign *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Eventuality |

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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:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.lesson:17`.

**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 ×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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