Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 0
Ming's yéye and nǎinai (grandad and granny) live with his family, and to them you are a guest child to be fussed over.
Who acts: yéye, you · What happens: live, be, fuss over · To what, where: guest child, yéye
This is a sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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, you), 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 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yéye | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ming | case |
| 3 | yéye | yéye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nǎinai | cc |
| 5 | nǎinai | nǎinai | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 3 yéye | conj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 grandad | punct |
| 7 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yéye | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 granny | cc |
| 9 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grandad | conj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 grandad | punct |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 child | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 child | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 child | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 child | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 child | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 22 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 child | compound |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fussed | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fussed | aux:pass |
| 26 | fussed | fuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 child | acl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 fussed | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Ming's yéye and nǎinai | with Ming's family | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with family=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a guest child | yéye | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fuss over | to-infinitive · passive | Ming's yéye and nǎinai not said here | 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:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:0.
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 ×3, R5-strong ×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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