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title: āiyā («IGH-yah») means oh no, oh dear or oh my; everyone says it, an… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics
description: āiyā («IGH-yah») means oh no, oh dear or oh my; everyone says it, and it can be cross, surprised or fond, so you read the face. Who acts: āiyā, everyone, test, you. A sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 11

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āiyā («IGH-yah») means oh no, oh dear or oh my; everyone says it, and it can be cross, surprised or fond, so you read the face.

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**Who acts:** āiyā, everyone, test, you · **What happens:** mean, say, be, read · **To what, where:** test, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» 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 (āiyā, everyone, test, you), 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:11
# text = āiyā («IGH-yah») means oh no, oh dear or oh my; everyone says it, and it can be cross, surprised or fond, so you read the face.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	āiyā	āiyā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	IGH	igh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	yah	yah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
11	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
14	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | āiyā |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | everyone | test |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | can | test |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | test *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | test *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **read** | present | you | the face |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic |

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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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:11`.

**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, 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/).

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