--- title: Then there are the playground words: duì (right!), bú duì (wrong!),… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics description: Then there are the playground words: duì (right!), bú duì (wrong!), hǎo (OK!), xíng (that works) and the dreaded parent's bù xíng (no way). Who acts: playground words, xíng. 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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 (playground words, xíng), 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:5 # text = Then there are the playground words: duì (right!), bú duì (wrong!), hǎo (OK!), xíng (that works) and the dreaded parent's bù xíng (no way). # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 duì duì NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 bú bú ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 duì duì NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nsubj 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 appos _ _ 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 hǎo hǎo NOUN FW _ 15 conj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 OK ok INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 xíng xíng NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:parataxis 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 dreaded dread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 bù bù ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 xíng xíng NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 40 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 41 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:unmarked _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | the playground words | | | there | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **work** | present | xíng | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dread** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/4/) - next →: [Yes and no — there is no single word, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/)