--- title: miàntiáo («MYEN-tyow?») are noodles; slurping is fine, and on birthd… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics description: miàntiáo («MYEN-tyow?») are noodles; slurping is fine, and on birthdays long noodles are not cut, because they mean long life. Who acts: miàntiáo, slurping, noodles. 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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 (miàntiáo, slurping, noodles), 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:10 # text = miàntiáo («MYEN-tyow?») are noodles; slurping is fine, and on birthdays long noodles are not cut, because they mean long life. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 miàntiáo miàntiáo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 3 « « CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 MYEN MYEN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 tyow tyow NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 8 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 noodles noodle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 parataxis _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 slurping slurp NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 birthdays birthday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 noodles noodle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:cop 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | miàntiáo | noodles | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | slurping | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **cut** | present · passive | | long noodles | | birthdays | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **mean** | present | noodles *= noodle* | long life | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic | 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:011-dinner-at-the-friends-house.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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