--- title: bú yào («BOO YOW!») means don't want, or don't! (stop it!); to a gra… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics description: bú yào («BOO YOW!») means don't want, or don't! (stop it!); to a granny offering food, bú yòng le, xièxie (no need, thanks) is kinder. Who acts: BOO, le xièxie. 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(stop it!); to a granny offering food, bú yòng le, xièxie (no need, thanks) is kinder. **Who acts:** BOO, le xièxie · **What happens:** yow, means, not want, not do, stop, offer · **To what, where:** BOO, food, granny 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 (BOO, le 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:15 # text = bú yào («BOO YOW!») means don't want, or don't! (stop it!); to a granny offering food, bú yòng le, xièxie (no need, thanks) is kinder. # 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 ×2 1 bú bú X FW Foreign=Yes 6 discourse _ _ 2 yào yào X FW Foreign=Yes 6 discourse _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 BOO boo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 YOW yow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 nsubj _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 28 offering offer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 bú bú X FW Foreign=Yes 32 discourse _ _ 32 yòng yòng VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 33 le le NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 xièxie xièxie NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 discourse _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 kinder kinder ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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* | present | BOO | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **means** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **not** **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | | BOO | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 6 | **offer** | gerund | | food | a granny | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent food=Theme to granny=Goal | | 7 | **yòng** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | present | le xièxie | | | | | kinder *property* | 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:15`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Yes and no — there is no single word, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/)