--- title: qǐng («ching», dipping) is please as an invitation: qǐng zuò (please… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: qǐng («ching», dipping) is please as an invitation: qǐng zuò (please sit), qǐng jìn (please come in); kids ask for things with ... hǎo ma? or ... ba instead. Who acts: invitation, kids. 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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 (invitation, kids), 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:13 # text = qǐng («ching», dipping) is please as an invitation: qǐng zuò (please sit), qǐng jìn (please come in); kids ask for things with ... hǎo ma? or ... ba instead. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 3 « « ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 ching ch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 please please INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 invitation invitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 zuò zuò PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 18 please please INTJ UH _ 19 discourse _ _ 19 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 23 jìn jìn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 25 please please INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 ... ... PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 hǎo hǎo X FW _ 37 compound _ _ 37 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 ... ... PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 42 instead instead ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 43 . . 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 | **qǐng** | gerund | | | | | | « ching » | tree rules | | 2 | **ch** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | as a invitation; instead *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **qǐng** | gerund | a invitation *not said here* | zuò and jìn | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sit** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **qǐng** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **come in** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | kids | | | | | for things; with hǎo ma or ba | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/12/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)