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title: xièxie nǐ («SHYEH-shyeh nee») is a fuller thank you, lovely to a fri… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics
description: xièxie nǐ («SHYEH-shyeh nee») is a fuller thank you, lovely to a friend's parent who helped you, but funny to your best friend for every crisp. Who acts: parent. A sentence of the lesson «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 17

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xièxie nǐ («SHYEH-shyeh nee») is a fuller thank you, lovely to a friend's parent who helped you, but funny to your best friend for every crisp.

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**Who acts:** parent · **What happens:** be, help · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parent), 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:17
# text = xièxie nǐ («SHYEH-shyeh nee») is a fuller thank you, lovely to a friend's parent who helped you, but funny to your best friend for every crisp.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	xièxie	xièxie	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	nsubj	_	_
2	nǐ	nǐ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	SHYEH	SHYEH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	shyeh	shyeh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	nee	nee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fuller	fuller	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	crisp	crisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fuller *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | past | a friend's parent |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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 ×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/).

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