--- title: Picture a crowded bus: «jiè guò yíxià!» gets you past, qǐng wèn star… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a crowded bus: «jiè guò yíxià!» gets you past, qǐng wèn starts a question to a stranger, and máfan nǐ asks a favour, like «sorry to trouble you». Who acts: you, «, wèn, máfan nǐ. 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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, «, wèn, máfan nǐ), 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:5 # text = Picture a crowded bus: «jiè guò yíxià!» gets you past, qǐng wèn starts a question to a stranger, and máfan nǐ asks a favour, like «sorry to trouble you». # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 « « X GW ExtPos=PROPN 12 nsubj _ _ 7 jiè jiè X GW _ 6 flat _ _ 8 guò guò X GW _ 6 flat _ _ 9 yíxià yíxià X GW _ 6 goeswith _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 12 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 16 qǐng qǐng VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 17 wèn wèn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj 18 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 máfan máfan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 nǐ nǐ NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 like like SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 trouble trouble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 39 . . 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a crowded bus | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bus=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | « | you | | | | past *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **qǐng** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **start** | present | wèn | a question | | | | to a stranger | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | máfan nǐ | a favour | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | | 6 | **trouble** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | 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:5`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/4/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)