Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 2

Grandparents say the same few things on every visit: nǐ zhǎng gāo le! (you've grown so tall!), zhēn guāi! (such a good child!) and, at goodbye, hǎohāo xuéxí! (study hard!).

Who acts: Grandparents, you · What happens: say, grow, study · To what, where: same few things, visit · 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 (Grandparents, 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	Grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 things	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 visit	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 visit	det
9	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 things	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
11	nǐ	nǐ	X	_	6 things	appos
12	zhǎng	zhǎng	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat
13	gāo	gāo	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat
14	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 grown	nsubj
18	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grown	aux
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 nǐ	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 tall	advmod
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grown	xcomp
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
25	zhēn	zhēn	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat
26	guāi	guāi	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 child	punct
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 child	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 child	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 child	amod
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nǐ	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 child	punct
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 child	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 goodbye	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 goodbye	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 goodbye	case
38	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nǐ	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
40	hǎohāo	hǎohāo	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat
41	xuéxí	xuéxí	X	Foreign=Yes	11 nǐ	flat
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 nǐ	punct
43	(	(	PUNCT	_	44 study	punct
44	study	study	VERB	Number=Sing	11 nǐ	conj
45	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 study	advmod
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 study	punct
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	44 study	punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandparents	the same few things	every visit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	grow	present · perfect	you			tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	study	infinitive	Grandparents not said here			hard property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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 ×6. 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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