Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 17
jiùjiu («JYO-jyo») is mum's brother, in many families a special, spoiling uncle.
Who acts: jiùjiu · What happens: be, spoil · To what, where: brother, uncle
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 (jiùjiu), 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 | jiùjiu | jiùjiu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 JYO | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 JYO | punct |
| 4 | JYO | JYO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 jiùjiu | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 jyo | punct |
| 6 | jyo | jyo | X | _ | 4 JYO | flat |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 JYO | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 jiùjiu | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 brother | cop |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 mum | case |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 families | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 families | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 families | amod |
| 16 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brother | appos |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 uncle | det |
| 18 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 families | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoiling | punct |
| 20 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 special | advcl |
| 21 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoiling | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 brother | 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 | is a | present | jiùjiu | mum's brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spoil | gerund | jiùjiu not said here | a uncle | 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:17.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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