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title: qǐng jìn («ching JIN») means come in, please, said by the host at th… — At the friend's home: what to say to the parents · tree and pragmatics
description: qǐng jìn («ching JIN») means come in, please, said by the host at the door; jìnlái is come in and chūqù is go out. Who acts: jìnlái, chūqù. 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 t
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# At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 8

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qǐng jìn («ching JIN») means come in, please, said by the host at the door; jìnlái is come in and chūqù is go out.

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**Who acts:** jìnlái, chūqù · **What happens:** qǐng, ch, mean, come in, say, go out · **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 (jìnlái, chūqù), 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:8
# text = qǐng jìn («ching JIN») means come in, please, said by the host at the door; jìnlái is come in and chūqù is go out.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	nsubj	_	_
2	jìn	jìn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ching	ch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	JIN	jin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:acl
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	jìnlái	jìnlái	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	chūqù	chūqù	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:cop
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ch** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come in** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come in** | present | jìnlái |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go out** | present | chūqù |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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