Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 10
nín shēntǐ hǎo ma («neen SHUN-tee HOW mah», literally «is your body well?») means are you keeping well; asking an elder about health is caring, not nosy.
Who acts: SHUN, nín ma, you, elder, asking · What happens: tee, be, mean, keep, ask, not be · To what, where: mah », body · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (SHUN, nín ma, you, elder), 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 | nín | nín | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 ma | flat:foreign |
| 2 | shēntǐ | shēntǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 nín | flat:foreign |
| 3 | hǎo | hǎo | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 nín | flat:foreign |
| 4 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 neen | punct |
| 6 | « | « | ADP | _ | 7 neen | case |
| 7 | neen | neen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 tee | obl |
| 8 | SHUN | SHUN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tee | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tee | punct |
| 10 | tee | tee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ma | appos |
| 11 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 mah | advmod |
| 12 | mah | mah | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 » | amod |
| 13 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tee | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 body | punct |
| 15 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 19 body | advmod |
| 16 | « | « | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 body | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tee | obl |
| 20 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 27 keeping | discourse |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 » | punct |
| 22 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | compound |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 » | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 keeping | aux |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 keeping | nsubj |
| 27 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 means | ccomp |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 keeping | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 asking | punct |
| 30 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 caring | csubj |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 elder | det |
| 32 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 asking | obj |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 health | case |
| 34 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 elder | nmod |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 caring | cop |
| 36 | caring | caring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 means | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 nosy | punct |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 nosy | advmod |
| 39 | nosy | nosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 caring | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tee in a quote | infinitive | SHUN | mah » | « neen | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | your body | literally property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | nín ma | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep | present · progressive | you | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a elder | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | asking | caring property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not be | asking 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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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