--- title: lǎoye («LAOW-yeh») is grandad on mum's side in the north; in the sou… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics description: lǎoye («LAOW-yeh») is grandad on mum's side in the north; in the south he is wàigōng, where wài means outside, from an old custom families today do not mean unkindly. Who acts: child, wài, families. 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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 (child, wài, 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:11 # text = lǎoye («LAOW-yeh») is grandad on mum's side in the north; in the south he is wàigōng, where wài means outside, from an old custom families today do not mean unkindly. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 lǎoye lǎoye INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 LAOW LAOW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 yeh yeh DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 wàigōng wàigōng NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 27 wài wài X FW Foreign=Yes 28 nsubj _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:acl:relcl 29 outside outside ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 36 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ _ 40 unkindly unkindly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | LAOW grandad | | mum's side in the north | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | child | wàigōng | | the south | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | wài | | | a old custom | | outside *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | families | a old custom *not said here* | | | today | unkindly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=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](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:11`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/10/) - next →: [Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/)