--- title: kuài jiào yéye («KWIGH JYOW YEH?-yeh») means quick, greet Grandad; j… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics description: kuài jiào yéye («KWIGH JYOW YEH?-yeh») means quick, greet Grandad; jiào rén means greeting people by their titles, and the answer is yéye hǎo! Who acts: kuài, Grandad, people, answer. 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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 (kuài, Grandad, people, answer), 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:19 # text = kuài jiào yéye («KWIGH JYOW YEH?-yeh») means quick, greet Grandad; jiào rén means greeting people by their titles, and the answer is yéye hǎo! # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 kuài kuài X FW Foreign=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 2 jiào jiào X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat _ _ 3 yéye yéye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 6 KWIGH kwigh X GW _ 14 mark _ _ 7 JYOW JYOW PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 goeswith _ _ 8 YEH YEH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 10 - - PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 yeh yeh DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 jiào jiào X FW Foreign=Yes 22 discourse _ _ 21 rén rén X FW Foreign=Yes 20 flat _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 greeting greet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 titles title NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 yéye yéye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 34 hǎo hǎo X FW Foreign=Yes 33 dep _ _ 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 | **mean** | present | kuài | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | infinitive | Grandad | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* *not said to happen* | gerund | people | | | | | by people's titles | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | the answer | yéye | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **title** | | people | | | | | | nom title «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:19`. **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, R7-rel-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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