--- title: méi shìr («MAY shr», with a Beijing r curl; southern speakers say mé… — Thank you, sorry, excuse me · tree and pragmatics description: méi shìr («MAY shr», with a Beijing r curl; southern speakers say méi shì) means no problem, it's nothing, or I'm fine after a small fall. Who acts: méi shìr, southern speakers, shìr, I. 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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 (méi shìr, southern speakers, shìr, I), 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:9 # text = méi shìr («MAY shr», with a Beijing r curl; southern speakers say méi shì) means no problem, it's nothing, or I'm fine after a small fall. # 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 1 méi méi X FW _ 2 compound _ _ 2 shìr shìr NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 MAY may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 shr shr VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 r r NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 curl curl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 méi méi X FW _ 19 compound _ _ 19 shì shì NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shr** *in a quote* | may | méi shìr *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | southern speakers | méi shì | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shì=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | méi shìr | no problem | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | shìr | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | | after a small fall | fine *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/8/) - next →: [Thank you, sorry, excuse me, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/3-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me/)