--- title: kuài kàn («KWIGH KAHN») means look, quick!; the answer is nǎr? (wher… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics description: kuài kàn («KWIGH KAHN») means look, quick!; the answer is nǎr? (where?), and kàn falls, while dipping kǎn means chop. Who acts: kuài, answer, kàn. 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(where?), and kàn falls, while dipping kǎn means chop. **Who acts:** kuài, answer, kàn · **What happens:** mean, look, be, fall, dip · **To what, where:** KWIGH, means chop · **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 (kuài, answer, kàn), 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:19 # text = kuài kàn («KWIGH KAHN») means look, quick!; the answer is nǎr? (where?), and kàn falls, while dipping kǎn means chop. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 kuài kuài X FW Foreign=Yes 9 nsubj _ _ 2 kàn kàn X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 4 « « CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 5 KWIGH kwigh NOUN GW Number=Sing|Typo=Yes 10 obl _ _ 6 KAHN KAHN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 goeswith _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 quick quick ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 nǎr nǎ ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 kàn kàn X FW Foreign=Yes 27 nsubj _ _ 27 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 31 kǎn kǎn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 33 compound _ _ 33 chop chop NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | kuài | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** | present | | KWIGH | | | | quick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | the answer | | | | | nǎ *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | present | kàn | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dip** | gerund | kàn *not said here* | means chop | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chop=Theme | 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:19`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-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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