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title: hóngshāoròu («HONG?-shaow-ROE») is red-braised pork belly, sweet and… — Dinner at the friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: hóngshāoròu («HONG?-shaow-ROE») is red-braised pork belly, sweet and glossy; families who don't eat pork, such as some Muslim Chinese families or vegetarians, won't cook it, so don't ask for it. Who acts: hóngshāoròu, red braised pork belly, families. A sentence of the lesson «Dinner at the friend's
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# Dinner at the friend's house, sentence 15

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hóngshāoròu («HONG?-shaow-ROE») is red-braised pork belly, sweet and glossy; families who don't eat pork, such as some Muslim Chinese families or vegetarians, won't cook it, so don't ask for it.

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**Who acts:** hóngshāoròu, red braised pork belly, families · **What happens:** braise, be, not eat, not cook, not ask · **To what, where:** red braised pork belly, pork

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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 (hóngshāoròu, red braised pork belly, families), 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:15
# text = hóngshāoròu («HONG?-shaow-ROE») is red-braised pork belly, sweet and glossy; families who don't eat pork, such as some Muslim Chinese families or vegetarians, won't cook it, so don't ask for it.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	hóngshāoròu	hóngshāoròu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	HONG	HONG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
7	shaow	shaow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	ROE	roe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	braised	braise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
28	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	35	case	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
33	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	vegetarians	vegetarian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux	_	_
46	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:conj
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **braise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hóngshāoròu | red braised pork belly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | red braised pork belly | pork |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **cook** | future | families | pork |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | for » | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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