--- title: qǐng wèn («ching WUN») means excuse me, may I ask; wèn must fall, be… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: qǐng wèn («ching WUN») means excuse me, may I ask; wèn must fall, because dipping wěn means kiss. Who acts: qǐng, I, wèn, dipping wěn. 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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 (qǐng, I, wèn, dipping wěn), 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:14 # text = qǐng wèn («ching WUN») means excuse me, may I ask; wèn must fall, because dipping wěn means kiss. # 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): no change 1 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 wèn wèn NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 ching ch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 WUN WUN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 wèn wèn NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 amod _ _ 23 wěn wěn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | | wèn | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ch** *in a quote* | gerund | | WUN | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | qǐng | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **excuse** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | I | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fall** | must | wèn | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **dip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mean** | present | dipping wěn | kiss | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Topic | 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:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/13/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)