At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 10

qǐng zuò («ching DZWAW») means please sit down; wait to be shown where, because at the table the best seat is for the eldest.

Who acts: best seat · What happens: ch, mean, sit down, wait, show, be · To what, where: DZWAW, table · 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 (best seat), 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	qǐng	qǐng	X	Foreign=Yes	9 means	csubj
2	zuò	zuò	X	Foreign=Yes	1 qǐng	flat
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 ching	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 ching	punct
5	ching	ch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 qǐng	advcl
6	DZWAW	DZWAW	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ching	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 DZWAW	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 ching	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	please	please	INTJ	_	11 sit	discourse
11	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	ccomp
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sit	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 wait	punct
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sit	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 shown	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 shown	aux:pass
17	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wait	advcl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 shown	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 table	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 table	mark
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 table	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sit	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 seat	det
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 seat	amod
26	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eldest	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 eldest	cop
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 eldest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eldest	det
30	eldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 table	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ch in a quote	gerund		DZWAW			tree rules
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down	infinitive			the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
4	wait	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	to-infinitive · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
6	is	present	the best seat			old property	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:028-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-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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