--- title: wǒ lái bāng nín («waw LIGH BAHNG neen») means let me help you; elder… — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics description: wǒ lái bāng nín («waw LIGH BAHNG neen») means let me help you; elders refuse once to be polite (bú yòng, bú yòng!), so offer again and help anyway. Who acts: wǒ, me, elders. 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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, me, elders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:13 # text = wǒ lái bāng nín («waw LIGH BAHNG neen») means let me help you; elders refuse once to be polite (bú yòng, bú yòng!), so offer again and help anyway. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.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): no change 1 wǒ wǒ X FW Foreign=Yes 13 nsubj _ _ 2 lái lái X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 bāng bāng X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 4 nín nín X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 1 punct _ _ 7 waw waw X GW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 8 LIGH ligh X GW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 9 BAHNG bahng X GW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 10 neen neen X GW _ 1 flat:foreign _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 refuse refuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 21 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 bú bú SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 yòng yòng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 bú bú SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 yòng yòng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 offer offer VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 help help VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 39 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 . . 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 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **help** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 4 | **refuse** | present | elders | | | | | once *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | elders *not said here* | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **yòng** | gerund | elders *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **yòng** | gerund | elders *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **offer** | infinitive | elders *not said here* | | | | again | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **help** | infinitive | elders *not said here* | | | | | anyway *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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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