--- title: yào («YOW!», falling) means want, yes please, and also «will» or «mu… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics description: yào («YOW!», falling) means want, yes please, and also «will» or «must»; to an adult add xièxie. Who acts: yào, «, xièxie. 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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 (yào, «, xièxie), 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:14 # text = yào («YOW!», falling) means want, yes please, and also «will» or «must»; to an adult add xièxie. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 yào yào X FW Foreign=Yes 10 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 YOW yow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ _ 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 10 discourse _ _ 14 please please INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 18 « « PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 » » VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 « « VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 23 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:aux 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 29 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 30 xièxie xièxie NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . 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 | **yow** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | yào | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **want** | present | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **»** | future | « | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **«** | infinitive | « *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | xièxie | | | | | to a adult | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to adult=Co-Patient | 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:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/11/) - next →: [Yes and no — there is no single word, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/)