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title: duì («DWAY!», falling) means right, correct; kids say it a lot, ofte… — Yes and no — there is no single word · tree and pragmatics
description: duì («DWAY!», falling) means right, correct; kids say it a lot, often three times: duì duì duì. Who acts: duì, kids. 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 9

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duì («DWAY!», falling) means right, correct; kids say it a lot, often three times: duì duì duì.

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**Who acts:** duì, kids · **What happens:** mean, say · **To what, where:** right, falling · **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 (duì, kids), 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:9
# text = duì («DWAY!», falling) means right, correct; kids say it a lot, often three times: duì duì duì.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	duì	duì	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	DWAY	DWAY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	duì	duì	X	GW	_	10	obj	_	_
26	duì	duì	X	GW	_	25	flat	_	_
27	duì	duì	X	GW	_	25	flat	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **mean** | present | duì | right |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | kids | falling |  |  | time | a lot *obl:unmarked* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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:9`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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