--- title: hǎo («how», dipping) means OK or good, agreeing to a plan; it is not… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics description: hǎo («how», dipping) means OK or good, agreeing to a plan; it is not the English question word how, which is zěnme. Who acts: hǎo, plan, English question word. 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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 (hǎo, plan, English question word), 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:11 # text = hǎo («how», dipping) means OK or good, agreeing to a plan; it is not the English question word how, which is zěnme. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 hǎo hǎo X FW _ 9 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 dipping dip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 OK ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 zěnme zěnme NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dip** | gerund | hǎo *not said here* | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | hǎo | OK | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ok=Topic | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | | | | | | to a plan | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | plan | the English question word and zěnme | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | the English question word and zěnme | zěnme | | | | | 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:004-yes-and-no.lesson:11`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Yes and no — there is no single word, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/9/) - next →: [Yes and no — there is no single word, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/)