At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 1

Before you look at a single toy you say «shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo!» (hello Uncle, hello Auntie) — that's what children call a friend's parents, and two seconds of it wins them over.

Who acts: you, that, children, two seconds · What happens: look, say, be, call, win over · To what, where: shūshu, parents, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» 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 (you, that, children, two seconds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/1/