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title: jiùjiu («JYO-jyo») is mum's brother, in many families a special, spo… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics
description: jiùjiu («JYO-jyo») is mum's brother, in many families a special, spoiling uncle. Who acts: jiùjiu. 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 every clau
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# Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 17

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jiùjiu («JYO-jyo») is mum's brother, in many families a special, spoiling uncle.

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**Who acts:** jiùjiu · **What happens:** be, spoil · **To what, where:** brother, uncle

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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 (jiùjiu), 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:17
# text = jiùjiu («JYO-jyo») is mum's brother, in many families a special, spoiling uncle.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	jiùjiu	jiùjiu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	JYO	JYO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	jyo	jyo	X	FW	_	4	flat	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	spoiling	spoil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is a** | present | jiùjiu | mum's brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spoil** | gerund | jiùjiu *not said here* | a uncle |  |  |  |  | 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:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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