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title: In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, out loud: «… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, out loud: «yéye hǎo!». Who acts: you, families. 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 and the pragmatics of ever
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# Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 1

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In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, out loud: «yéye hǎo!».

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**Who acts:** you, families · **What happens:** greet, title · **To what, where:** elder, Chinese families

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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 (you, families), 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:1
# text = In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, out loud: «yéye hǎo!».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	yéye	yéye	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
17	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	flat:foreign	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | you | each elder |  | Chinese families |  | by families's title; out *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elder=Theme |
| 2 | **title** |  | families *= family* |  |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:1`.

**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.

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

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