--- title: lǎolao («LAOW-laow») is granny on mum's side in the north (wàipó in… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics description: lǎolao («LAOW-laow») is granny on mum's side in the north (wàipó in the south); mixing her up with nǎinai makes everyone laugh. Who acts: lǎolao, mixing, everyone. 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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 (lǎolao, mixing, everyone), 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:12 # text = lǎolao («LAOW-laow») is granny on mum's side in the north (wàipó in the south); mixing her up with nǎinai makes everyone laugh. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 lǎolao lǎolao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 LAOW LAOW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 laow laow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 granny granny 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 -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 wàipó wàipó NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 mixing mix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 csubj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 nǎinai nǎinai NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:_ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 31 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obj _ _ 32 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | lǎolao | granny | | mum's side in the north | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mix up** | gerund | | lǎolao | | | | with nǎinai | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient with nǎinai=Co-Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | mixing | everyone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:12`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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. 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