Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 8
And if Granny speaks fast, or in Cantonese or Hokkien, «qǐng nín màn diǎnr shuō» asks her kindly to slow down.
Who acts: Granny · What happens: speak, qǐng, ask, slow down · To what, where: nín, granny · 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 (Granny), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 speaks | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 speaks | mark |
| 3 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speaks | nsubj |
| 4 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 asks | advcl |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 4 speaks | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cantonese | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 Cantonese | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Cantonese | case |
| 9 | Cantonese | Cantonese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speaks | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Hokkien | cc |
| 11 | Hokkien | Hokkien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cantonese | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cantonese | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 qǐng | punct |
| 14 | qǐng | qǐng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 speaks | conj |
| 15 | nín | nín | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 14 qǐng | obj |
| 16 | màn | màn | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 shuō | dep |
| 17 | diǎnr | diǎnr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shuō | compound |
| 18 | shuō | shuō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 qǐng | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 asks | punct |
| 20 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asks | obj |
| 22 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 20 asks | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 slow | mark |
| 24 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asks | xcomp |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 slow | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | Granny | fast property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | qǐng in a quote | gerund | Granny not said here | nín | diǎnr shuō obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | granny | kindly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | slow down not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:8.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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