--- title: zěnme le («DZUN-muh luh») means what's up, what happened?; asking it… — Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! · tree and pragmatics description: zěnme le («DZUN-muh luh») means what's up, what happened?; asking it gently is the kind thing when a friend is quiet, and the answer may be méi shìr or the real story. Who acts: zěnme le, asking, friend, answer. 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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 (zěnme le, asking, friend, answer), 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:20 # text = zěnme le («DZUN-muh luh») means what's up, what happened?; asking it gently is the kind thing when a friend is quiet, and the answer may be méi shìr or the real story. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 zěnme zěnme ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 DZUN DZUN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 muh muh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 8 luh luh INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ _ 9 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 up up ADV RB _ 11 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 nsubj _ _ 17 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 20 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 gently gently ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:acl:relcl 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 36 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 38 méi méi X FW _ 39 compound _ _ 39 shìr shìr NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | zěnme le | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | up *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | le | | | gently *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | asking | the kind thing and méi shìr or the real story | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | a friend | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | may | the answer | méi shìr or the real story | | | | | 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:20`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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