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title: Bump into someone and you say duìbuqǐ (sorry, I did it); they answer… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics
description: Bump into someone and you say duìbuqǐ (sorry, I did it); they answer méi guānxi (never mind). Who acts: you, I, manners. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 3

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Bump into someone and you say duìbuqǐ (sorry, I did it); they answer méi guānxi (never mind).

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**Who acts:** you, I, manners · **What happens:** bump, say, do, answer, not mind · **To what, where:** someone, duìbuqǐ, thank, méi guānxi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, I, manners), 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:3
# text = Bump into someone and you say duìbuqǐ (sorry, I did it); they answer méi guānxi (never mind).
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Bump	bump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
9	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
18	méi	méi	X	FW	_	19	compound	_	_
19	guānxi	guānxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **bump** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | someone |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into someone=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | duìbuqǐ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | I | thank |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | manners | méi guānxi |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent guānxi=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **mind** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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