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title: His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào. — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics
description: His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào. Who acts: granny, 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 clause.
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# Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 4

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His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào.

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**Who acts:** granny, you · **What happens:** hold out, say · **To what, where:** bun, yào · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (granny, 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:4
# text = His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bun	bun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	yào	yào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
10	bu	bu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
11	yào	yào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
18	yào	yào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hold out** | present | Ming's granny | a bun |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | yào |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yào=Topic |

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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:4`.

**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): 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/).

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