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title: Smile and say xièxie or hǎo de — don't argue. — Talking to the friend's grandparents · tree and pragmatics
description: Smile and say xièxie or hǎo de — don't argue. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 3

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Smile and say xièxie or hǎo de — don't argue.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** smile, say, not argue · **To what, where:** xièxie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:3
# text = Smile and say xièxie or hǎo de — don't argue.
# 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	Smile	smile	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	xièxie	xièxie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	argue	argue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | xièxie |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent xièxie=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **argue** *speech: disagree* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:3`.

**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.

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

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