--- title: xièxie («SHYEH-shyeh», the first falling, the second light) means th… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: xièxie («SHYEH-shyeh», the first falling, the second light) means thank you; children thank elders for gifts and food, though too many thank-yous between best friends can sound distant. Who acts: xièxie, children, many thank yous. 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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 (xièxie, children, many thank yous), 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:6 # text = xièxie («SHYEH-shyeh», the first falling, the second light) means thank you; children thank elders for gifts and food, though too many thank-yous between best friends can sound distant. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 xièxie xièxie NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 SHYEH SHYEH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 shyeh shyeh NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 falling falling NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 23 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 though though SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 thank thank NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 yous you NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 35 between between ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 amod _ _ 37 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:conj 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 40 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | xièxie | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | children | elders | | | | for gifts and food | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent elder=Theme for gift=Attribute | | 4 | **sound** | can | many thank yous best friends | | | | | distant *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/5/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)