Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 1

In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, out loud: «yéye hǎo!».

Who acts: you, families · What happens: greet, title · To what, where: elder, Chinese families

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 (you, families), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 families	case
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	amod
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greet	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 greet	nsubj
5	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 elder	det
7	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 greet	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 title	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 title	nmod:poss
10	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 greet	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 out	punct
12	out	out	ADV	_	5 greet	advmod
13	loud	loud	ADV	_	12 out	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 greet	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 yéye	punct
16	yéye	yéye	X	Foreign=Yes	5 greet	dep
17	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	16 yéye	flat:foreign
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 hǎo	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 hǎo	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 greet	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	you	each elder		Chinese families		by families's title; out property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elder=Theme
2	title		families = family						nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:1.

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): R6-punct-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.

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