Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 10

nǎinai («NIGH-nigh», the first dipping) is granny on dad's side, and any old lady to a child; children never call her by her name.

Who acts: nǎinai, children, title · What happens: be, not call, name · To what, where: granny, side, title · 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 (nǎinai, children, title), 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	nǎinai	nǎinai	X	Foreign=Yes	14 granny	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 nigh	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 nigh	punct
4	NIGH	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nigh	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 NIGH	punct
6	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dipping	appos
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 nigh	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dipping	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dipping	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 dipping	amod
11	dipping	dipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nǎinai	appos
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 nǎinai	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 granny	cop
14	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
16	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 side	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 dad	case
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 granny	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lady	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lady	cc
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 lady	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lady	amod
23	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 granny	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 child	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lady	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 granny	punct
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 call	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 call	advmod
30	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 granny	parataxis
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 call	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 name	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 name	nmod:poss
34	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 call	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 granny	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	nǎinai	granny and any old lady to a child		dad's side		tree rules
2	not call	present	children		title		by title's name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	name		title					nom name «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:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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.

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