--- title: méi guānxi («MAY gwahn-shee») means never mind, the usual answer to… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: méi guānxi («MAY gwahn-shee») means never mind, the usual answer to duìbuqǐ; guānxi alone means connections, who you know. Who acts: méi, guānxi, you. 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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 (méi, guānxi, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:11 # text = méi guānxi («MAY gwahn-shee») means never mind, the usual answer to duìbuqǐ; guānxi alone means connections, who you know. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 méi méi X FW Foreign=Yes 11 nsubj _ _ 2 guānxi guānxi X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 MAY may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 gwahn gwahn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 flat _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 shee Shee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 duìbuqǐ duìbuqǐ X FW Foreign=Yes 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 guānxi guānxi X FW Foreign=Yes 23 nsubj _ _ 22 alone alone ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 connections connection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gwahn** *in a quote* | may | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | méi | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **mind** | infinitive | | the usual answer | | | | to duìbuqǐ | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | guānxi | connections | | | | alone *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Topic | | 5 | **know** | present | you | connections | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus | 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:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:11`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/9/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)