Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 9
yéye («YEH?-yeh») is grandad on dad's side; children also call any old man yéye.
Who acts: yéye, children · What happens: be, call · To what, where: grandad, side, old man · 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 (yéye, children), 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 | yéye | yéye | NOUN | _ | 11 grandad | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 YEH | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 YEH | punct |
| 4 | YEH | YEH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 yéye | appos |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 YEH | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 yeh | punct |
| 7 | yeh | yeh | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 » | det |
| 8 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 YEH | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grandad | cop |
| 11 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 dad | case |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grandad | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 children | punct |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 call | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 call | advmod |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grandad | parataxis |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obj |
| 23 | yéye | yéye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grandad | 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 | yéye | grandad | dad's side | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | present | children | any old man | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme yéye=Result |
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:9.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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