Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 19

kuài jiào yéye («KWIGH JYOW YEH?-yeh») means quick, greet Grandad; jiào rén means greeting people by their titles, and the answer is yéye hǎo!

Who acts: kuài, Grandad, people, answer · What happens: mean, greet, be, title · To what, where: yéye · 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 (kuài, Grandad, people, answer), 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	kuài	kuài	X	Foreign=Yes	14 means	nsubj
2	jiào	jiào	X	Foreign=Yes	1 kuài	flat
3	yéye	yéye	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 means	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
6	KWIGH	kwigh	X	_	14 means	mark
7	JYOW	JYOW	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 KWIGH	goeswith
8	YEH	YEH	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 JYOW	flat
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 KWIGH	punct
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 »	punct
11	yeh	yeh	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 »	det
12	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 KWIGH	conj
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 KWIGH	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 greet	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 greet	punct
17	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 means	ccomp
18	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 greet	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
20	jiào	jiào	X	Foreign=Yes	22 means	discourse
21	rén	rén	X	Foreign=Yes	20 jiào	flat
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 means	parataxis
23	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 means	xcomp
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 greeting	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 titles	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 titles	nmod:poss
27	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 greeting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 yéye	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 yéye	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 answer	det
31	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 yéye	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 yéye	cop
33	yéye	yéye	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 means	conj
34	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	33 yéye	dep
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	kuài			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	greet speech: greet	infinitive	Grandad			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	greet speech: greet not said to happen	gerund	people		by people's titles	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	the answer	yéye		tree rules
6	title		people			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:19.

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, R7-rel-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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