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title: When Ming's grandad comes in, Ming's mum whispers «kuài jiào yéye!»… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Ming's grandad comes in, Ming's mum whispers «kuài jiào yéye!» (quick, say hello to Grandad!). Who acts: grandad, mum, hello. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 0

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When Ming's grandad comes in, Ming's mum whispers «kuài jiào yéye!» (quick, say hello to Grandad!).

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**Who acts:** grandad, mum, hello · **What happens:** come in, whisper, say · **To what, where:** Grandad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» 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 (grandad, mum, hello), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:010-grandparents-aunties-uncles.lesson:0
# text = When Ming's grandad comes in, Ming's mum whispers «kuài jiào yéye!» (quick, say hello to Grandad!).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 010-grandparents-aunties-uncles.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
13	kuài	kuài	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	_
14	jiào	jiào	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat	_	_
15	yéye	yéye	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
19	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
22	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | present | Ming's grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Ming's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | hello |  | Grandad |  |  | quick *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grandad=Recipient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:010-grandparents-aunties-uncles.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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