Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, sentence 9

gēge («GUH-guh») is big brother, also an older boy a child looks up to; when you talk about one brother, you nearly always say whether he is older or younger.

Who acts: gēge, child, you · What happens: be, look up, talk, say · To what, where: big brother, older boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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 (gēge, child, 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	gēge	gēge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brother	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	1 gēge	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 gēge	punct
4	GUH	guh	INTJ	_	1 gēge	appos
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 guh	punct
6	guh	guh	INTJ	_	4 GUH	flat
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 gēge	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 gēge	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 brother	cop
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brother	amod
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looks	punct
13	also	also	ADV	_	16 boy	advmod
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brother	appos
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looks	nsubj
19	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boy	acl:relcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 looks	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 up	fixed
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 talk	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 talk	nsubj
25	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 say	advcl
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 brother	nummod
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 talk	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 talk	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	32 always	advmod
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 say	advmod
33	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 brother	parataxis
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	37 older	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 older	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 older	cop
37	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 say	ccomp
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 younger	cc
39	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 older	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 brother	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	gēge	big brother		tree rules
2	look up	present	a child	a older boy not said here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Attribute
3	talk	present	you		about one brother	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about brother=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	you		always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	child		old property	tree rules
6	be		child not said here			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:009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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