--- title: bù huì ba («BOO HWAY ba») means no way, you're kidding; it is disbel… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics description: bù huì ba («BOO HWAY ba») means no way, you're kidding; it is disbelief, not a refusal, and the usual reply is zhēn de! Who acts: BOO, huì ba, you, usual reply. 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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 (BOO, huì ba, you, usual reply), 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:14 # text = bù huì ba («BOO HWAY ba») means no way, you're kidding; it is disbelief, not a refusal, and the usual reply is zhēn de! # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 bù bù ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 huì huì ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 BOO boo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 HWAY HWAY PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 kidding kid VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 disbelief disbelief NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 refusal refusal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 zhēn zhēn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 33 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 32 dep _ _ 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **»** | | BOO | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | huì ba | no way | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 3 | **kid** | present · progressive | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | BOO | disbelief and a refusal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the usual reply | | | | | zhēn *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:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/12/) - next →: [Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/)