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title: shūshu («SHOO-shoo») is uncle and any man around dad's age; Lǐ shūsh… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics
description: shūshu («SHOO-shoo») is uncle and any man around dad's age; Lǐ shūshu is how a child says Mr Li. Who acts: shūshu. 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 pragmati
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# Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 13

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shūshu («SHOO-shoo») is uncle and any man around dad's age; Lǐ shūshu is how a child says Mr Li.

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**Who acts:** shūshu · **What happens:** shoo, be · **To what, where:** uncle · **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 (shūshu), 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:13
# text = shūshu («SHOO-shoo») is uncle and any man around dad's age; Lǐ shūshu is how a child says Mr Li.
# 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): no change
1	shūshu	shūshu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
4	SHOO	shoo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	shoo	shoo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Lǐ	Lǐ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	shūshu	shūshu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	flat:foreign	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	Mr	mr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Li	li	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoo** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shoo** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | uncle and any man around dad's age  Lǐ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | shūshu |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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