Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 12

lǎolao («LAOW-laow») is granny on mum's side in the north (wàipó in the south); mixing her up with nǎinai makes everyone laugh.

Who acts: lǎolao, mixing, everyone · What happens: be, mix up, make, laugh · To what, where: granny, side, lǎolao, everyone

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 (lǎolao, mixing, everyone), 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	lǎolao	lǎolao	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 granny	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 »	punct
3	«	«	ADP	_	7 »	case
4	LAOW	LAOW	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 »	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 laow	punct
6	laow	laow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 »	amod
7	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lǎolao	appos
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 »	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 granny	cop
10	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 side	case
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 side	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mum	case
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 granny	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 north	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 north	det
17	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 side	nmod
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 wàipó	punct
19	wàipó	wàipó	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 north	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 south	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 south	det
22	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wàipó	nmod
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 wàipó	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 mixing	punct
25	mixing	mix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 makes	csubj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mixing	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 mixing	compound:prt
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 nǎinai	case
29	nǎinai	nǎinai	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mixing	obl
30	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 granny	parataxis
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 makes	obj
32	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 makes	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 granny	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	lǎolao	granny	mum's side in the north		tree rules
2	mix up	gerund		lǎolao		with nǎinai	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient with nǎinai=Co-Patient
3	make	present	mixing	everyone			tree rules
4	laugh	infinitive	everyone not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:12.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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