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title: Then «qǐng jìn» (come in, please), and your eyes go to the row of sl… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics
description: Then «qǐng jìn» (come in, please), and your eyes go to the row of slippers by the door: huàn tuōxié, change into slippers. Who acts: eyes. 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 with its dependency tree and th
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# At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 2

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Then «qǐng jìn» (come in, please), and your eyes go to the row of slippers by the door: huàn tuōxié, change into slippers.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** qǐng, come in, go, change · **To what, where:** jìn, row, slippers · **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 (eyes), 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:2
# text = Then «qǐng jìn» (come in, please), and your eyes go to the row of slippers by the door: huàn tuōxié, change into slippers.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	jìn	jìn	NOUN	FW	_	3	obj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:discourse
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	huàn	huàn	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
27	tuōxié	tuōxié	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **qǐng** *in a quote* | gerund |  | jìn |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come in** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | your eyes |  |  | the row of slippers by the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to row=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **change** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into slippers *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into slipper=Result |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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