--- title: At New Year all the qīnqi (relatives) come, including people nobody… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics description: At New Year all the qīnqi (relatives) come, including people nobody can quite explain, and Ming's mum whispers the right title to say. Who acts: relatives, nobody, mum. 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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 (relatives, nobody, mum), 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:8 # text = At New Year all the qīnqi (relatives) come, including people nobody can quite explain, and Ming's mum whispers the right title to say. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 3 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det:predet 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 qīnqi qīnqi X FW Foreign=Yes 8 dep _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 case _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 quite quite ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | relatives include people | | | | at New Year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at year=Location | | 2 | **include** | gerund | | | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | can | nobody | people *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Ming's mum | the right title | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Ming's mum *not said here* | the right title *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/7/) - next →: [Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/)