--- title: nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè? («nee SHEE-hwahn SHUN-muh YEN?-suh») means w… — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè? («nee SHEE-hwahn SHUN-muh YEN?-suh») means what colour do you like?; you answer wǒ xǐhuan lánsè (I like blue). Who acts: you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/18/) [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/) / [Colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/) / 18 # Colours, sentence 18 nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè? («nee SHEE-hwahn SHUN-muh YEN?-suh») means what colour do you like?; you answer wǒ xǐhuan lánsè (I like blue). **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** nǐ, shun, mean, like, answer · **To what, where:** xǐhuan shénme yánsè, muh YEN, colour, wǒ xǐhuan lánsè, blue · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» 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 (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:008-colours.lesson:18 # text = nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè? («nee SHEE-hwahn SHUN-muh YEN?-suh») means what colour do you like?; you answer wǒ xǐhuan lánsè (I like blue). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 008-colours.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 nǐ nǐ VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 xǐhuan xǐhuan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 shénme shénme NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 yánsè yánsè NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 nee nee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 9 SHEE SHEE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 vocative _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 hwahn hwahn X FW Foreign=Yes 8 dep _ _ 12 SHUN shun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 14 muh muh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 YEN yen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 17 - - PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 18 suh suh INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 22 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WP:PronType=Int 23 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 answer answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 31 wǒ wǒ ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 xǐhuan xǐhuan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 lánsè lánsè NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advcl 37 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obj _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nǐ** | imperative | you *not said here* | xǐhuan shénme yánsè | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shun** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | muh YEN | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent yen=Location | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **like** | present · do-support | you | what colour | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme | | 5 | **answer** *speech: ask* | present | you | wǒ xǐhuan lánsè | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lánsè=Eventuality | | 6 | **like** | present | I | blue | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blue=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:008-colours.lesson:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Colours, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/17/) - next →: [Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/9-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/)