--- title: jiè guò yíxià («jyeh GWAW ee-shyah») means excuse me, can I get past… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: jiè guò yíxià («jyeh GWAW ee-shyah») means excuse me, can I get past; yī is said rising in yíxià because a falling tone follows. Who acts: you, I, falling tone. 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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 (you, I, falling tone), 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:16 # text = jiè guò yíxià («jyeh GWAW ee-shyah») means excuse me, can I get past; yī is said rising in yíxià because a falling tone follows. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 jiè jiè VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 guò guò X GW _ 1 obj _ _ 3 yíxià yíxià X GW _ 2 flat:foreign _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 6 jyeh jyeh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 det _ _ 7 GWAW GWAW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 8 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 shyah shyah NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 excuse excuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 yī yī PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 25 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:ccomp 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 yíxià yíxià NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jiè** | imperative | you *not said here* | guò | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **excuse** | present | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **get** | can | I | | | | | past *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | yī | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rise** | gerund | | | | yíxià | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in yíxià=Location | | 7 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **follow** | present | a falling tone | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/14/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)