Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 12

nín zuò zhèr («neen DZWAW JAR») means please sit here; giving your seat to an elder on a sofa or a bus is expected, not extra-nice.

Who acts: nín, giving · What happens: mean, sit, give, expect · To what, where: seat, elder, sofa · 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, giving), 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	11 means	nsubj
2	zuò	zuò	X	_	1 nín	flat
3	zhèr	zhèr	X	_	2 zuò	goeswith
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 neen	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 neen	punct
6	neen	neen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 zuò	goeswith
7	DZWAW	DZWAW	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 neen	flat
8	JAR	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 neen	flat
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 neen	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	please	please	INTJ	_	13 sit	discourse
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	ccomp
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sit	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 giving	punct
16	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 expected	csubj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 seat	nmod:poss
18	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 elder	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 elder	det
21	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 sofa	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sofa	det
24	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giving	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 bus	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bus	det
27	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sofa	conj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 expected	aux:pass
29	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 means	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nice	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 nice	advmod
32	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nice	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 extra	punct
34	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 expected	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	nín				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit	infinitive				here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	gerund		your seat	a elder	a sofa or a bus	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme to elder=Recipient on sofa=Asset
4	expect	present · passive	giving				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»

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:12.

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): no change. 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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