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title: Dad's parents are yéye and nǎinai; in the north, mum's parents are l… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad's parents are yéye and nǎinai; in the north, mum's parents are lǎoye and lǎolao (in the south, wàigōng and wàipó). Who acts: parents. 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 dependenc
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# Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 4

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Dad's parents are yéye and nǎinai; in the north, mum's parents are lǎoye and lǎolao (in the south, wàigōng and wàipó).

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** yéye, north, lǎoye

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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 (parents), 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:4
# text = Dad's parents are yéye and nǎinai; in the north, mum's parents are lǎoye and lǎolao (in the south, wàigōng and wàipó).
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	yéye	yéye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nǎinai	nǎinai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	lǎoye	lǎoye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lǎolao	lǎolao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	wàigōng	wàigōng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	wàipó	wàipó	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Dad's parents | yéye and nǎinai |  | the north |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mum's parents | lǎoye and lǎolao |  |  |  |  | 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:4`.

**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): 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.

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

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