--- title: Take a little, say xièxie āyí, and you're doing brilliantly. — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics description: Take a little, say xièxie āyí, and you're doing brilliantly. 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 primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [At the friend's home: what to say to t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/) / 5 # At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 5 Take a little, say xièxie āyí, and you're doing brilliantly. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, say, do · **To what, where:** little, xièxie āyí · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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:5 # text = Take a little, say xièxie āyí, and you're doing brilliantly. # 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 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 xièxie xièxie X FW _ 7 compound _ _ 7 āyí āyí NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:ccomp 13 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | xièxie āyí | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent āyí=Topic | | 3 | **do** | present · progressive | you | | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [At the friend's home: what to say to t…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/4/) - next →: [At the friend's home: what to say to t…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/)