Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 20

lǎorénjiā («LAOW-run-JYAH») is a respectful word for an elder, as in tā lǎorénjiā shēntǐ hǎo; calling an elder just lǎo de (the old one) is rude.

Who acts: lǎorénjiā, elder, calling · What happens: be, call · To what, where: respectful word · 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 (lǎorénjiā, elder, calling), 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	lǎorénjiā	lǎorénjiā	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 word	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct
4	LAOW	LAOW	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 run	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 LAOW	punct
6	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lǎorénjiā	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 JYAH	punct
8	JYAH	JYAH	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 run	compound
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 word	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
13	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 word	amod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rude	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 elder	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 elder	det
17	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 word	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tā	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 tā	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 tā	case
21	tā	tā	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 word	appos
22	lǎorénjiā	lǎorénjiā	X	ExtPos=PROPN	21 tā	list
23	shēntǐ	shēntǐ	X	_	22 lǎorénjiā	goeswith
24	hǎo	hǎo	X	_	22 lǎorénjiā	flat
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 lǎorénjiā	punct
26	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 rude	csubj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 elder	det
28	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 calling	obj
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 lǎo	advmod
30	lǎo	lǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	28 elder	appos
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 lǎo	flat
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 one	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	amod
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lǎo	appos
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 rude	cop
38	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 word	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	lǎorénjiā	a respectful word	for a elder	tree rules
2	call	gerund	a elder			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	calling		rude property	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:20.

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. 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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