--- title: bù hǎoyìsi («boo HOW-ee-sz») is a softer everyday sorry or excuse me… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: bù hǎoyìsi («boo HOW-ee-sz») is a softer everyday sorry or excuse me for small slips, and also means «oh, I'm embarrassed». Who acts: boo, southern speakers. 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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 (boo, southern speakers), 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:12 # text = bù hǎoyìsi («boo HOW-ee-sz») is a softer everyday sorry or excuse me for small slips, and also means «oh, I'm embarrassed». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 bù bù ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 hǎoyìsi hǎoyìsi X FW Foreign=Yes 17 parataxis _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 boo boo NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 6 HOW how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 sz sz NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 16 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 slips slip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 oh oh INTJ UH _ 33 discourse _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 embarrassed embarrassed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 35 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | boo and ee sz » | a softer everyday sorry | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **excuse** | infinitive | boo and ee sz » *not said here* | me | | | | for small slips | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for slip=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** | present | boo and ee sz » *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | southern speakers *= speaker* | | | | | embarrassed *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/11/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)