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title: kù («koo!», falling) means cool and was borrowed from English; hǎo k… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics
description: kù («koo!», falling) means cool and was borrowed from English; hǎo kù! means so cool. Who acts: kù, hǎo. 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.
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# Street chatter: wow, really?, cool!, sentence 17

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kù («koo!», falling) means cool and was borrowed from English; hǎo kù! means so cool.

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**Who acts:** kù, hǎo · **What happens:** mean, borrow · **To what, where:** English

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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 (kù, hǎo), 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:17
# text = kù («koo!», falling) means cool and was borrowed from English; hǎo kù! means so cool.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	kù	kù	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	koo	koo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
19	kù	kù	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | kù |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **borrow** | past · passive | kù *not said here* |  |  | English |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: from english=Source |
| 3 | **mean** | present | hǎo |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:17`.

**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 ×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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