Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 0
When Ming's grandad comes in, Ming's mum whispers «kuài jiào yéye!» (quick, say hello to Grandad!).
Who acts: grandad, mum, hello · What happens: come in, whisper, say · To what, where: Grandad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» 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 (grandad, mum, hello), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 2 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ming | case |
| 4 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whispers | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 comes | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 8 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mum | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Ming | case |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whispers | nsubj |
| 11 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispers | punct |
| 13 | kuài | kuài | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 11 whispers | conj |
| 14 | jiào | jiào | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 kuài | flat |
| 15 | yéye | yéye | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 kuài | flat |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispers | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispers | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 19 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 21 say | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quick | punct |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 whispers | parataxis |
| 22 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 say | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Grandad | case |
| 24 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 say | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispers | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispers | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | present | Ming's grandad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | present | Ming's mum | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | hello | Grandad | quick property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grandad=Recipient |
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, 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:010-grandparents-aunties-uncles.lesson:0.
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 ×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.
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