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title: Mandarin doesn't: you answer by repeating the verb of the question,… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics
description: Mandarin doesn't: you answer by repeating the verb of the question, so the «yes» changes every time. Who acts: Mandarin, you, «. A sentence of the lesson «Yes and no — there is no single word» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 1

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Mandarin doesn't: you answer by repeating the verb of the question, so the «yes» changes every time.

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**Who acts:** Mandarin, you, « · **What happens:** not do, answer, repeat, change · **To what, where:** verb

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Yes and no — there is no single word» 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 (Mandarin, you, «), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:004-yes-and-no.lesson:1
# text = Mandarin doesn't: you answer by repeating the verb of the question, so the «yes» changes every time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 004-yes-and-no.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	«	«	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	17	discourse	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
20	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **do** | present | Mandarin |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **repeat** | gerund | you *not said here* | the verb of the question |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Eventuality |
| 4 | **change** | present | the « |  |  |  | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:004-yes-and-no.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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