--- title: méiyǒu («MAY-yo») means haven't got, there isn't, or didn't; the «no… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics description: méiyǒu («MAY-yo») means haven't got, there isn't, or didn't; the «not» for yǒu is always méi, never bù. Who acts: méiyǒu, «. 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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 (méiyǒu, «), 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:17 # text = méiyǒu («MAY-yo») means haven't got, there isn't, or didn't; the «not» for yǒu is always méi, never bù. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 méiyǒu méiyǒu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 MAY MAY PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 yo yo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 yǒu yǒu NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 30 méi méi NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 bù bù ADV RB _ 30 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | méiyǒu | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **get** | present · perfect | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **be** | present | | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the « | méi | | | | always *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:17`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Names and "how old are you?", 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/5-names-and-how-old/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/)