--- title: nǎinai («NIGH-nigh», the first dipping) is granny on dad's side, and… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics description: nǎinai («NIGH-nigh», the first dipping) is granny on dad's side, and any old lady to a child; children never call her by her name. Who acts: nǎinai, children, title. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nǎinai, children, title), 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:10 # text = nǎinai («NIGH-nigh», the first dipping) is granny on dad's side, and any old lady to a child; children never call her by her name. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 nǎinai nǎinai X FW Foreign=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 4 NIGH nigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 flat _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 nigh nigh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 appos _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 dipping dipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 1 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 28 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | nǎinai | granny and any old lady to a child | | dad's side | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **call** | present | children | | title | | | by title's name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **name** | | title | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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](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:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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