--- title: Most of what you hear from Ming and his friends isn't sentences at a… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics description: Most of what you hear from Ming and his friends isn't sentences at all — it's little noises and quick words: āiyā!, wa!, zhēn de ma?, kù! Who acts: you, Most, it. 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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, Most, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:0 # text = Most of what you hear from Ming and his friends isn't sentences at all — it's little noises and quick words: āiyā!, wa!, zhēn de ma?, kù! # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.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 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 obl _ _ 16 — - PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 noises noise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 25 āiyā āiyā NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 wa wa NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 zhēn zhēn X FW Foreign=Yes 33 dep _ _ 32 de de ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 kù kù X FW Foreign=Yes 13 dep _ _ 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | you | | | Ming and his friends | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Topic from ming=Source | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Most | sentences | | all | | wa *obl*; de ma *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | it | little noises and quick words and āiyā | | | | | 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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:0`. **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: [Talking to the friend's grandparents, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/29-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents/20/) - next →: [Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/)