--- title: wa («wah!», high and long) means wow, said just like in English when… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics description: wa («wah!», high and long) means wow, said just like in English when something is amazing. Who acts: wa, something. A sentence of the lesson «Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/) / 12 # Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 12 wa («wah!», high and long) means wow, said just like in English when something is amazing. **Who acts:** wa, something · **What happens:** mean, say, like, be · **To what, where:** English · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wa, something), 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:12 # text = wa («wah!», high and long) means wow, said just like in English when something is amazing. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 wa WA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 3 « « PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 wah wah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 6 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 wow wow INTJ UH _ 12 discourse _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | wa *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wa | | | English | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **like** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | present | something | | | | | amazing *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:030-street-chatter-wow-really-cool.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, 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. 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