Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 17

qǐng nín màn diǎnr shuō («ching neen MAHN DYAR SHWAW») means please could you speak more slowly; many grandparents speak Cantonese, Hokkien or another dialect, which the friend may not fully understand either.

Who acts: qǐng, you, many grandparents, friend · What happens: qǐng, mean, speak, not understand · To what, where: nín, Cantonese, dialect · 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 (qǐng, you, many grandparents, friend), 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	qǐng	qǐng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 means	csubj
2	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	1 qǐng	obj
3	màn	màn	X	Foreign=Yes	5 shuō	dep
4	diǎnr	diǎnr	X	Foreign=Yes	5 shuō	compound
5	shuō	shuō	X	Foreign=Yes	1 qǐng	obj
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 ching	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 ching	punct
8	ching	ching	X	Foreign=Yes	1 qǐng	conj
9	neen	neen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ching	list
10	MAHN	MAHN	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 SHWAW	compound
11	DYAR	DYAR	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 MAHN	flat
12	SHWAW	SHWAW	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 neen	nmod:unmarked
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 ching	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 ching	punct
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	please	please	INTJ	_	19 speak	discourse
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 speak	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 speak	nsubj
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 means	ccomp
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 slowly	advmod
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	19 speak	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 Cantonese	punct
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grandparents	amod
24	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 speak	nsubj
25	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	parataxis
26	Cantonese	Cantonese	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 speak	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Hokkien	punct
28	Hokkien	Hokkien	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Cantonese	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 dialect	cc
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 dialect	det
31	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Hokkien	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 understand	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 understand	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 friend	det
35	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 understand	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 understand	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 understand	advmod
38	fully	fully	ADV	_	39 understand	advmod
39	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 dialect	acl:relcl
40	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 understand	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	qǐng	gerund		nín		tree rules
2	mean	present	qǐng			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	could	you		slowly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	present	many grandparents	Cantonese and Hokkien or another dialect		tree rules
5	not understand	may	the friend	another dialect	either, fully property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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:17.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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