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title: yéye («YEH?-yeh») is grandad on dad's side; children also call any o… — Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families… · tree and pragmatics
description: yéye («YEH?-yeh») is grandad on dad's side; children also call any old man yéye. Who acts: yéye, children. 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 9

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yéye («YEH?-yeh») is grandad on dad's side; children also call any old man yéye.

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**Who acts:** yéye, children · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** grandad, side, old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (yéye, children), 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:9
# text = yéye («YEH?-yeh») is grandad on dad's side; children also call any old man yéye.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	yéye	yéye	NOUN	NN	_	11	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	YEH	YEH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	yeh	yeh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound
23	yéye	yéye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | yéye | grandad |  | dad's side |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | children | any old man |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme yéye=Result |

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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:9`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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