Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 6

The titles stretch outside the family: any man about your dad's age is shūshu (uncle), any woman about your mum's age is āyí (auntie), any old man in the park yéye.

Who acts: titles, man · What happens: stretch, be · To what, where: 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 (titles, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 titles	det
2	titles	title	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stretch	nsubj
3	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretch	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 uncle	punct
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uncle	nsubj
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 age	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dad	nmod:poss
12	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 age	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 dad	case
14	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 uncle	cop
16	shūshu	shūshu	X	Foreign=Yes	18 uncle	dep
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 uncle	punct
18	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretch	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 uncle	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 woman	punct
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretch	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	27 age	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mum	nmod:poss
25	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 age	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 mum	case
27	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 woman	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 āyí	cop
29	āyí	āyí	X	Foreign=Yes	3 stretch	parataxis
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 auntie	punct
31	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 āyí	obl
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 auntie	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 man	punct
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 man	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 āyí	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 yéye	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 park	det
39	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 yéye	compound
40	yéye	yéye	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 man	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present	the titles					outside the family	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	any man about your dad's age	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:6.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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