Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 13

shūshu («SHOO-shoo») is uncle and any man around dad's age; Lǐ shūshu is how a child says Mr Li.

Who acts: shūshu · What happens: shoo, be · To what, where: uncle · 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 (shūshu), 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	shūshu	shūshu	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 says	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 uncle	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 uncle	punct
4	SHOO	shoo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 «	xcomp
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 shoo	punct
6	shoo	shoo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 SHOO	conj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 shoo	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 shoo	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 uncle	cop
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 says	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 man	cc
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 uncle	conj
14	around	around	ADP	_	17 age	case
15	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 age	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 dad	case
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 Lǐ	punct
19	Lǐ	Lǐ	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 man	nmod
20	shūshu	shūshu	X	Foreign=Yes	19 Lǐ	flat:foreign
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 says	cop
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 says	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 says	nsubj
25	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	Mr	mr	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Li	compound
27	Li	li	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 says	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoo in a quote	infinitive				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	shoo in a quote	infinitive				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		uncle and any man around dad's age Lǐ		tree rules
4	be speech: assert	present	shūshu		say property	tree rules

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:13.

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): no change. 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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