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title: From the kitchen Ming's mum calls «chī fàn le!» (dinner's ready!), l… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: From the kitchen Ming's mum calls «chī fàn le!» (dinner's ready!), literally «eating rice now». Who acts: mum, dinner. A sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 0

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From the kitchen Ming's mum calls «chī fàn le!» (dinner's ready!), literally «eating rice now».

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**Who acts:** mum, dinner · **What happens:** call, be, eat · **To what, where:** chī, kitchen, rice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's house» 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 (mum, dinner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:0
# text = From the kitchen Ming's mum calls «chī fàn le!» (dinner's ready!), literally «eating rice now».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
9	chī	chī	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	fàn	fàn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	flat	_	_
11	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
21	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
24	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Ming's mum | chī |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chī=Theme from kitchen=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | dinner |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | Ming's mum *not said here* | rice |  |  | now | literally *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |

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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:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:0`.

**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): 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.

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

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