Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 11

nín xiān chī («neen SHYEN CHR») means please eat first; children don't start until the eldest picks up the chopsticks or invites them with chī ba, chī ba!

Who acts: nín chī, children, eldest · What happens: mean, eat, not start, pick up, invite · To what, where: chopsticks · 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 (nín chī, children, eldest), 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	3 chī	amod
2	xiān	xiān	X	Foreign=Yes	1 nín	flat
3	chī	chī	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 neen	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 neen	punct
6	neen	neen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chī	appos
7	SHYEN	SHYEN	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 neen	nmod:unmarked
8	CHR	CHR	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 SHYEN	flat
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 SHYEN	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 neen	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	please	please	INTJ	_	13 eat	discourse
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	ccomp
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 eat	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 start	punct
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 start	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 start	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 start	advmod
19	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	parataxis
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 picks	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eldest	det
22	eldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 picks	nsubj
23	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 start	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 picks	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chopsticks	det
26	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 picks	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 invites	cc
28	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 picks	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 invites	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 ba	case
31	chī	chī	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ba	compound
32	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 invites	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ba	punct
34	chī	chī	ADP	_	35 ba	case
35	ba	ba	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ba	conj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	nín chī			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	infinitive			first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not start	present · do-support	children			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	pick up	present	the eldest	the chopsticks		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chopstick=Topic
5	invite	present	the eldest not said here	chopsticks = chopstick	with chī ba and ba	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:11.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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