Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 4
Dad's parents are yéye and nǎinai; in the north, mum's parents are lǎoye and lǎolao (in the south, wàigōng and wàipó).
Who acts: parents · What happens: be · To what, where: yéye, north, lǎoye
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 (parents), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dad | case |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 yéye | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 yéye | cop |
| 5 | yéye | yéye | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nǎinai | cc |
| 7 | nǎinai | nǎinai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 yéye | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 yéye | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 north | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 north | det |
| 11 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yéye | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 north | punct |
| 13 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 mum | case |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lǎoye | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lǎoye | cop |
| 17 | lǎoye | lǎoye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yéye | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lǎolao | cc |
| 19 | lǎolao | lǎolao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lǎoye | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 south | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 south | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 south | det |
| 23 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lǎoye | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wàigōng | punct |
| 25 | wàigōng | wàigōng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 south | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wàipó | cc |
| 27 | wàipó | wàipó | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 south | conj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 south | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yéye | 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 | Dad's parents | yéye and nǎinai | the north | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | mum's parents | lǎoye and lǎolao | 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:4.
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): 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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