--- title: bú shì («BOO SHR!») means no, it isn't; bù becomes rising bú before… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics description: bú shì («BOO SHR!») means no, it isn't; bù becomes rising bú before a falling tone. Who acts: bú shì, shì, bù. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Yes and no — there is no single word](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/) / 8 # Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 8 bú shì («BOO SHR!») means no, it isn't; bù becomes rising bú before a falling tone. **Who acts:** bú shì, shì, bù · **What happens:** mean, not be, become, rise, fall · **To what, where:** rising bú, falling tone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (bú shì, shì, bù), 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:8 # text = bú shì («BOO SHR!») means no, it isn't; bù becomes rising bú before a falling tone. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 bú bú NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 shì shì NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 BOO boo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 SHR shr NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 14 discourse _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 bù bù NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 19 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:xcomp 20 bú bú NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 21 before before ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 . . 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 | **mean** | present | bú shì | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **be** | present | shì | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | bù | rising bú | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rise** | gerund | | | | a falling tone | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before tone=Location | | 5 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:8`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/6/) - next →: [Yes and no — there is no single word, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/)