Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 9

yéye nǎinai hǎo («YEH-yeh NIGH-nigh HOW») means hello Grandad and Granny, said to the friend's grandparents before anything else; they may beam and say zhēn guāi!

Who acts: yéye, Grandad · What happens: mean, say, beam · To what, where: grandparents, zhēn · 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 (yéye, Grandad), 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	yéye	yéye	X	Foreign=Yes	15 means	nsubj
2	nǎinai	nǎinai	X	Foreign=Yes	1 yéye	flat:foreign
3	hǎo	hǎo	X	Foreign=Yes	1 yéye	flat:foreign
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 YEH	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 YEH	punct
6	YEH	YEH	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 means	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 nigh	punct
8	yeh	yeh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 YEH	flat
9	NIGH	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nigh	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 nigh	punct
11	nigh	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 YEH	parataxis
12	HOW	how	ADV	Typo=Yes	11 nigh	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 HOW	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 nigh	punct
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	hello	hello	INTJ	_	17 Grandad	discourse
17	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Granny	cc
19	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Grandad	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Grandad	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 means	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 grandparents	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 friend	det
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grandparents	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 friend	case
26	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 said	obl
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 anything	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 beam	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 beam	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 beam	aux
33	beam	beam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 say	cc
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 beam	conj
36	zhēn	zhēn	X	Foreign=Yes	35 say	obj
37	guāi	guāi	X	Foreign=Yes	36 zhēn	flat:foreign
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	mean	present	yéye				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Grandad and Granny		the friend's grandparents	before anything	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grandparent=Recipient
3	beam	may	grandad				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	grandad not said here	zhēn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent zhēn=Topic

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:9.

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 ×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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