At the friend's home: what to say to the parents, sentence 7
shūshu hǎo, āyí hǎo («SHOO-shoo HOW, AH-ee HOW») means hello Uncle, hello Auntie, said to the friend's dad and mum the moment you walk in; forgetting it is the biggest mistake.
Who acts: shūshu, Auntie, you, forgetting · What happens: shoo, mean, say, walk in, forget, be · To what, where: Uncle, dad, moment, friend, biggest mistake · 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 (shūshu, Auntie, you, forgetting), 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 | shūshu | shūshu | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 means | nsubj |
| 2 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 shūshu | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hǎo | punct |
| 4 | āyí | āyí | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 hǎo | flat |
| 5 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 shūshu | flat |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 SHOO | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 SHOO | punct |
| 8 | SHOO | shoo | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | parataxis |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 shoo | punct |
| 10 | shoo | shoo | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 SHOO | conj |
| 11 | HOW | how | INTJ | _ | 10 shoo | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 13 | AH | ah | INTJ | _ | 19 means | discourse |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ee | punct |
| 15 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 SHOO | parataxis |
| 16 | HOW | how | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 15 ee | appos |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 HOW | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 ee | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 21 Uncle | discourse |
| 21 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Auntie | punct |
| 23 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 24 Auntie | discourse |
| 24 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Uncle | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Auntie | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 dad | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 friend | det |
| 29 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dad | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 friend | case |
| 31 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 mum | cc |
| 33 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dad | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 moment | det |
| 35 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 walk | nsubj |
| 37 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 moment | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 37 walk | advmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 forgetting | punct |
| 40 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 mistake | csubj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 forgetting | obj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 mistake | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 mistake | det |
| 44 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 mistake | amod |
| 45 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoo in a quote | infinitive | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | shoo in a quote | infinitive | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | shūshu | Uncle and Auntie | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Auntie not said here | the friend's dad and mum | moment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dad=Recipient | |||
| 5 | walk in | present | you | the moment not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | forget | gerund | friend | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | forgetting | the biggest mistake | 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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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