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title: Dad's sister is gūgu, mum's brother jiùjiu, mum's sister yímā, dad's… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad's sister is gūgu, mum's brother jiùjiu, mum's sister yímā, dad's older brother bóbo. Who acts: sister. 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 ev
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# Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 5

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Dad's sister is gūgu, mum's brother jiùjiu, mum's sister yímā, dad's older brother bóbo.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gūgu

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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 (sister), 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:5
# text = Dad's sister is gūgu, mum's brother jiùjiu, mum's sister yímā, dad's older brother bóbo.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	gūgu	gūgu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	jiùjiu	jiùjiu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	yímā	yímā	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bóbo	bóbo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
22	.	.	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 sister | gūgu and mum's brother jiùjiu and sister yímā and brother bóbo |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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 ×3, 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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